구미호의 이중적 관념과 고전서사 수용양상

초록

This study made a start with reflecting on the previous studies that dichotomized nine-tailed foxes into positive and negative ones in classical narratives and viewed them as a unilinear transformation process. The study examined the mixed patterns of holiness and devilishness according to the origin, formation, and transcendence ramification of the nine-tailed fox, focusing on the remaining traces of holiness in the transitional process from holiness to devilishness after the two were mixed and implemented in order to interpret its diverse personalities and complex hierarchies. The study estimated that the fox faith existed during the animism period in the early days of mankind and that there was the coexistence and mixture of holiness and devilishness in the nine-tailed fox in the ramification process of transcendence later. The holiness of the nine-tailed fox was compromised after the advent of new religions and ideologies, and it was eventually excluded after a period of gradual weakening. The compromise and confrontation process between the native faith and new religions(or ideologies) is found in <Wongwangseohak> and the <legend of Seoguam>. While the former shows the ways it tried to combine with and reject Buddhism by compromising with the native faith, the latter demonstrates that the holiness of the nine-tailed fox was excluded by the Confucian order after the native faith was defeated by Confucianism. The holiness of the nine-tailed fox was mixed with its devilishness and accepted in works. In <the birth myth of Gang Gam-Chan>, both the holiness and devilishness of the nine-tailed fox were demonstrated by a nine-tailed fox that gave birth to a great figure and another one that harmed people. In <The Fox Beads> and <Jeonwoochijeon>, the holiness of the nine-tailed fox did not surface and left its traces in its transcendent abilities. Even in the society that regards the holiness of the nine-tailed fox as a monster, people combine their fantasy with its holiness and transform it to satisfy their desire to expand their being.

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