Mudangs & Sinbangs Korea

research in shamanism and ritual healing

 

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First I make an offering to the God creator, especially for the sun, moon, and humans.

The second offering is to the generals, the Korean generals, the ancestor general spirits who have died for Korea.

I ask them to help and to give me their strength. The spirit that usually possesses me is a general. He is “Tosa”, the highest god.

Once possessed by him different generals from the Peck Pusan Mountains in North Korea find it easy to come to me because they are comfortable with him.

A general from the three kingdoms, from the period of the ancestors comes into me then. I am also possessed by General MacArthur, but I can’t understand him because I do not understand English.”

She talked about the spirits as she would about a friend.

from an interview with Mrs. Jong, a Korean Mudang