<도깨비 감투> 설화유형의 한일 비교

Abstract

This study discusses the similarities and differences detected in stories of “Dokkebi Gamtu” type between Korea and Japan. The Korean folk tale of Dokkebi Gamtu is the story of a poor man who gained gamtu to conceal his appearance to steal other people’s things so that he gets a material satisfaction temporarily, but this story comes to the scene where such theft is uncovered due to the trail of stitched red cloths overlaying damaged holes. In contrast, in the Japanese folk tale, a gambler gets a material satisfaction with a hidden Dorongyi which he acquired from the god or Dengu, but his theft, or drinking at a restaurant without paying his bill, is discovered when the ashes of burned Dorongyi came off his body while he was doing bed-wetting in the restaurant. Thus, whilst the stories in the two countries show a structural commonality in the success and failure of stealing, cultural differences such as gamtu, the god and Dorongyi in Dengu have been reviewed. Through the study in the sense of folk tales, in order to meet the material demands in the two nations, the educational sociality appears that material satisfactions must be satisfied in a proper way. At the same time, through the hidden fantastic story, forgetting the stuffy reality, the collective consciousness of tradition has been studied to find the lifeblood. Thus, the entertainment nature of such folk tales in local legends of Japan is transformed into a funny story based on the exaggerated expression describing the exposure of sexual organs.