[KS] legend of mangbusok

[michael robinson]

Dear Mark, Ann and others:

The same legend in Chippawa and Ojibwae Indiana lore hold for the the 
formation of the Sleeping Bear Dunes on the Northwestern shore of Michigan's 
lower peninsula.  Here a mother bear awaits her cubs that could not make it 
across the lake with her....the cubs now are frozen as two Islands within 
sight of the major dune formation.

Mike Robinson
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Peterson" <Mark_Peterson at byu.edu>
To: "Korean Studies Discussion List" <Koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: [KS] legend of mangbusok



Dear Ann and others interested in manbusøk.  I can offer the
following, though it only broadens the question and does not answer
it.  When I have visitors from Korea visit Provo, we often comment on
a dominant mountain scene to the north of us.  The mountain is called
Timpanogous, and it means "sleeping maiden" -- it's an indian word
the implies the legend of a maiden who waited for her brave to return
from the hunt.  She waited and waited, and he didn't return, and she
lied down, turned to stone, and you can see her outline along the
ridge line.

Well, it's a mangbusøk legend.  When I tell Korea visitors, they
usually say, Oh, it's a mangbusøk; we have those in Korea.  I get the
impression that they are ubiquitous and every region that has a
mountain that might look like a maiden has the legend.

For what its worth.  Good luck tracking it (them) down.

Mark



>Dear Korean studies list members,
>
>Can anyone help me find sources to the manbusok (husband-waiting-rock)
>story that tells of the faithful wife who waited so long for her husband
>to return from the sea that she turned into a rock?   There's a mangbusok
>rock formation in Haeundae in Pusan, the only site I am aware of that
>carries a physical remnant of this folktale/legend.  Something tells me
>that this was also a story that circulated in Northern Korea in early
>twentieth century, as Kim Sowol alludes to it in one of his poems.
>
>Much obliged,
>Ann Choi
>
>----
>
>Ann Y. Choi
>Asian Languages and Cultures
>Rutgers University
>New Brunswick, NJ  08901