How to catch a thief when only the guilty have the clean hands
2025.01.18 23:49 HuckWritesBooks How to catch a thief when only the guilty have the clean hands
Hi folks!
I’m writing a book on world building tips and practical exercises, especially drawing from Korean myths and folklore.
And I just wanted to share some bits that might interest you, as I thought things from another culture can be a good inspiration when building a unique world for your story.
The one I wanted to share about today is shamans in Korea with a little folktale.
Story:
Every corner of the world boasts its unique form of witchcraft and sorcery. In Korea, we have something called “Moo”. No, has nothing to do with cows. Actually, “Moo” is how you read this Chinese character: 巫. The top bar and the bottom bar each symbolize heaven and earth, and things in between are a person, a shaman, dancing to mitigate both worlds. “Moo” can mean both the shamans and what they do: telling fortunes and doing some “Good” to appease the deceased. And no, this “good” has nothing to do with charity or anything; it’s a name of a religious ceremony, related to a lot of food, music, and dancing. In Korea, these shamans have been more often called “Moo Dahng” rather than just “Moo” (lucky me, as I don’t have to distinguish them from lovely calls of our bovine friends every time they appear). And as many sought to use superpowers for good, there were also those who wanted to misuse them for harm. It is said that some Moo Dahngs, corrupted, do these evil-doers’ bids (oh, I have a hell lot of spooky stories related to this!), and their curse is called “Yang Bop.” Once upon a time in a small, quiet village, there went a serial thefts and people got really upset. Although many villagers hadn’t got a clue who might be the thief, a clever woman thought up a plan. “Come to my house in the darkest hour of the night,” she said. “I met a famous Moo Dahng, and she taught me how to Yang Bop the thief. If someone gets afraid and doesn’t show up, we’ll have to conclude that the person is guilty.” So everyone was forced to visit her in the moonless night. Over the shaky murmurs of the people, only the distant owls hooted. As it was so dark, people couldn’t see each other’s faces outside their immediate nose’s reach. However, the woman prohibited them from lighting anything, telling that it would ruin the dark magic of the Moo Dahng. “Here,” the woman called, prompting everyone to shift their gaze towards her, guided only by her voice. “This urn is what the Moo Dahng gave me. In it, there is a frog: cursed, but cursed just right for us. It cannot eat anything but the human flesh corrupted by wrongdoing. It is starving to death and it shall bite.” People murmured. Some people were excited about the thief’s imminent capture; others worried things might go wrong and they might get hurt for no reason. I mean, you cannot always count on a frog’s judging ability! The woman called out again. “Now, you people all line up and put your hands in the urn one by one!” And people lined up and putting their hands in the urn. You could imagine the peer pressure! But the thief, hiding among the crowd, exhaled a sigh of relief. ‘Stupid woman,’ they thought. ‘It is so dark here that even if my turn comes and I have to dip my hand in that horrible thing, I can just stay in front of it for a moment and move on.’ After all the villagers were supposed to have dunk their hands in the urn, the people got dismayed as nobody cried out in pain. They complained, “hey, what is this joke?” “As far as I’m concerned, there was no amphibian in that urn, much less a cannibalistic one!” “Yeah! It was just water!” Then, the woman said, “you speak truly, villagers, as the thief will not be caught by some smart frog—how could you believe such a thing? You dudes are so naïve—but by fear of being caught.” Suddenly, she lighted a torch and raised her hand high in the air. “Everyone, now, show your hands!” Our thief, among others, raised their hand. And voila, he found out that all the other people there had black hands. Only his were gleaming white under the torchlight. “Aha!” the woman said. “What was there in the urn was not a frog. It was pure black ink, and only those too frightened to get Yang Bopped by the frog could get their hands clean.” She smirked, satisfied with the irony that only the guilty would have clean hands. There’s another version of this kind of Yang Bop. They requested everyone to place tiny notes with their names on them in a cauldron. They said that when a Moo Dahng pours water in the cauldron and boils it, only the thief’s name would float. So the same trick goes: only the thief doesn’t drop in their name and gets caught. Ah, the good old days when thieves stole, but at least they weren’t so brazen!
Story snippet:
There are various kinds of Moo Dahng. Some are like Levites in the Bible, who inherit their position from their ancestors and serve as community shamans. Others receive “Shin Nay Rim”, which means the descension of a deity into their body. When this happens, a person who was once normal suddenly begins to see things beyond this world—ghosts, the past, and the future. They often dream of ghosts, where those spirits demand they abandon all their worldly concerns and serve them. If they refuse, the marked Moo Dahng and sometimes their family get sick, go bankrupt, and basically go through hell until they obey. There are more female Moo Dahngs than males, and males are specifically called Bahk Soo. There is such a vast system of Moo (again, not cows!), and I really can’t wait to tell you everything!
Hope you enjoy the story!
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