쌍둥이설화 연구

Abstract

Oral literature is handed down by word of mouth and contains consciousness or intentions of the speaker. Folk tales especially have the strong character of oral aspect. They, created by group of people and handed down by mouth to mouth, reflect human natural emotions. As folk tales involve the frank sentiment of the people of those days, it is possible that feelings or emotions could be comprehended by studying folk tales. Applying this feature, the recognition of twins in folk tales will be discussed in this thesis. In Chapter 1, Ancient document Joseon Wangjo Sillok and Samguk-Sagi contain stories about twins. When twins were born, the empowered class granted grain, which meant the attention to the upbringing of twins. On the other hand powerless dominated people. Lack of economic richness made them not to be pleasant to the birth of twins. How these two different perceptions were described in folk tales will be mentioned in the next chapter. The third Chapter is about the transmissive aspect of twins folk tales. Twins folk tales are categorized into four different groups. By analyzing circumstances and the way of coping with situations in twins folk tales in each category, the aspect of how the perception of twins is transmitted and variated will be discussed. Chapter 4 contemplates the cognitional system and its meaning of twins folk tales by comparing western twins folk tales with those of Korea. Between two children of twins, a choice should be made by reason of the incapability of raising both children. A female one was normally eliminated, because of the Confucianism of first-boy-preference. Consecration and avoidance were both embodied in folk tales, but they vanished as twins became an object on which resentment could be vented. The resentment-vent-on twins had already been freed from all the restrictions they once had.