사서(史書)를 통해 본 노구의 특성과 변이양상

Abstract

This is the writing surveying Nogu (an old lady)’s personality and thechanging patterns to inspect Nogu’s original form on the basis of historybooks. By this method, the main target of the study is Nogu’s characterchanging from one shown in Samgooksagi (a history book of threekingdoms) to one illustrated in Koryeosa (a history of Koryeo Dynasty) andthe Annals of the Chosun Dynasty, especially looking into hercharacteristics in the latter of Chosun Dynasty with the reference books ofSunohji, Yulneyoram. As a result, Nogu (an old lady) was represented as a sacred priesttaking care of royal people, a matchmaker of a king, an invisible being withpower and a transforming shaman in the ancient society. In the former ofChosun Dynasty, however, she was stricken to a humble person hangingaround the royal family, a not-vulgar exorcist performing magical thingsand a pimp instigating naughty deeds, in the end, to the figure of alow-minded person deprived of the power having before. Considering therapidly changing perception of Nogu after Imjinwaeran (Japanese Invasionof Korea in 1592), in the meantime, it was attributed to the changed viewof women and the more established Confucian patriarchal system. Theimage of Nogu was transformed from sacred to humble and afforded a basis for a satire in Korean literature. The history of a humble Nogu isreflected on a sarcasm of Halmi in Korean folk play.