근대 ‘혹부리영감’ 서사의 자료적 고찰 — ‘조선 전설・동화 조사’(1913) 자료를 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to acquire research data that can identify the aspect and meaning of the modern ‘A Wenny Old Man(Hokburi Yeonggam)’ narrative. To accomplish this purpose, I examined nine texts of ‘A Wenny Old Man’ in the ‘Investigation Report of Chosun Legends and Fairy Tales’ conducted by the Chosun Government-General in 1913. Based on the narrative composition and contents of these texts, I examined the important motifs and narrative meaning, and based on their material values, presented a data base that can identify the identity of modern ‘A Wenny Old Man’ stories. In the early 1910s, the ‘A Wenny Old Man’ texts of the ‘Investigation Report of Chosun Legends and Fairy Tales’ showed a wide variety of narrative patterns. Therefore, in our reality where the legend and fairy tales materialized in the modern period are not enough, it will be very important to find out these new materials and expand and deepen the discussions using them. In this paper, I focused on the data of this report focusing on the modern ‘A Wenny Old Man’ stories. Through this, I aimed to contribute to increase the possibility of these texts as much as possible. These texts have identified noticeable motif differences in each of the characters, backgrounds, and events. There was a story that the main character, Hokburi, did not sing ‘song’ and whistled, or the temporal background was ‘night’ rather than ‘daytime’, and the spatial background was not ‘mountain’ but ‘road.’ In addition, it was possible to add ‘mutant goblin type’ and ‘mutant Jang Seung type’ to the type classification of the ‘A Wenny Old Man’ stories which is divided into ‘goblin type’ and ‘Jang Seung type.’ In addition, there was a ‘bestowal’ motif, in which the ‘transaction’ of buying and selling a bump and a buggy are identified as the key motifs of the story, and the bump is given free of charge. Also, I can see that there was a story of a ‘heft’ motif that takes out a hump. Until now, we have known the story of ‘Jang Seung type,’ which is the earliest period of ‘A Wenny Old Man’ stories, n the early period of ‘Anthology of Korean Fairy Tales’(1924) by Chosun Government-General. However, the fact that the typical ‘Jang Seung type’ narrative has been confirmed as the data of the preceding period is also significant. The textual pattern of the ‘A Wenny Old Man’ stories contained in the ‘Investigation Report of Chosun Legends and Fairy Tales’ is judged as a material value that will contribute to clarifying the identity of the modern ‘A Wenny Old Man’ stories. Especially, this fact is expected to be a great implication in the discussions on the process of the formation of the ‘A Wenny Old Man’ fairy tales.