‘주보(呪寶)형 혼인담’ 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to study the transmission patterns of Jubo-type marriage tales and analyze the contents of tales focusing on the narrative paragraphs. Jubo-type marriage tale is one of widely spread fairy-tales and it is a story in which a man marries a woman using the animal’s fur containing the magical power. In this paper, we conveniently divide Jubo-type tales into types 1 and 2 based on narrative ways. The former goes through ‘acquisition of Jubo – onset of disease in a woman – marriage after recovery’ and the latter goes through ‘acquisition of Jubo - onset of disease in a woman – treatments and failure to keep promise – recurrence of disease and marriage’. In terms of configuration of story or interesting factors, the type 2 relatively takes the lead. Jubo is used as a tool for making a narrative consensus, and a main character obtains it through ‘extortion, gratitude and exchange’. Since the man marries the woman in the family holding the wealth and power by using it, he is indulged in Ondal complex. According to the magical thinking of Fraser, the onset of disease is combined with principles of homeopathic magic and contagious magic. The frequency of treatments of diseases is ‘once, twice and three times’. There are some variations in each tale. It seems to be dependent on the differences in speaker’s narrative ability and recurrence of disease. Marriage talks are broken off because of the gap between classes of two families. The disease of the woman recurs. The conflict between characters is resolved by the surrender of the woman’s father. The main character marries her and lives well. Tales are finished with conclusions of the typical folklore. In the section of ‘acquisition of Jubo’, there is no consistency in the emergence of the main character, helpers and Jubo. It is the section which has the biggest variation in the Jubo-type marriage tale. This phenomenon seems to be continued in the future. The section of ‘onset and treatment of disease in a woman’ is the key section. If a speaker remembers that ‘the main character sticks the Jubo on the place where the woman discharges her urine and treats her disease. He marries her’, it would not have a problem to be transmitted. ‘Onset and treatment of disease in a woman’ by Jubo is the characteristic factor which is shown only in the Jubo-typemarriagetales. Thus, Jubo-type marriage tales will be maintained and handed down in a distinctive form which is different from other marriage tales.