방귀담의 神話性과 構造的 變移 樣相

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to identify the relationship among different types of fart stories by identifying the myth characteristics and the symbolical meaning of the fart stories and reviewing the changing trend we can find in the stories. Fart stories show the characteristics of Giant Myth with its creation motif and competition motif based on the excretion motif. In this article, the fart stories are classified as fart competition stories and farting daughter-in-law stories. Fart competition stories are closer to the prototype of the myth of the two. In most of the fart competition stories, male farter challenges female farter and it shows the conflicts between male and female sex during the transition of the initiative. Fart stories can be said to be stories of goddesses, in that they mainly deal with female farters. In particular, it can be thought to be a story derived from the female myth implying the creative meaning such as delivery, production or abundance. However, while they were passed generation to generation in the society grounded on the patriarchal ideology, the divinity of the goddess became weaker in the stories. Eventually the divinity was removed from the stories and the stories became more realistic to be funny stories. Farting daughter-in-law stories seem to be created after males had secured the initiatives. Therefore in the farting daughter-in-law stories, the trial and resistance of males and females are shown very well such as what males did to dominate females and what females did to secure their positions in male-dominating society.