[KS] Korean Ghost Stories
David Mason
mntnwolf at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 24 02:27:45 EDT 2005
--- Stefan Ewing <sa_ewing at hotmail.com> wrote:
> "Ah, *that's* a tokkaebi," I thought, upon
> discovering that a familiar architectural design
> motif features the creature, as shown in pictures
> here (for anyone else who was wondering):
>
http://www.lifeinkorea.com/culture/changseung/Changseung.cfm?xURL=Tokkaebi.
Except that those middle photos on that page are
actually building-protecting dragons, not tokkaebi.
Two examples of wooden tokkaebi carvings inspired by
Zo Zayong and carved by his friend You Jae-bong,
installed at Zo's former teaching center as Lauren
already said, are at the bottom of:
http://san-shin.org/Zo-13.html
and
http://san-shin.org/Zo-15.html
David Mason
David A. Mason
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