元雜劇 ≪盆兒鬼≫에 반영된 民間信仰 ― 액막이와 푸닥거리를 중심으로

Abstract

Since ancient times, ghosts have existed in the world as a symbol of mystery and weirdness. Humanity captured the existence of ghosts and human behavior toward them and left them as various stories, and in the Yuan Dynasty, many stories about ghosts were left through Yuan Opera. The Mongolians, the ruling class of the Yuan Dynasty, were a people with mythical politics, and supported the prayer activities of various religious people. Among the various religions that existed in the Yuan Dynasty, the most dominant is shamanism. Therefore, the play of that time contains various shamanistic rituals. The belief in the existence of ghosts, rituals to comfort or expel ghosts, and the activities of Shaman, which mediate between humans and ghosts, can be said to be the main factors that make the content of ghost plays rich and colorful. Since the birth origin of the play is not irrelevant to rituals, it can be said that the play is more closely related to folk beliefs. Therefore, the original ghost play has value as a material that reflects your folk beliefs. In order to examine the folk beliefs of the time through the original miscellaneous play, the work that was analyzed in this paper is the unknown author's Pen‘ergui(盆兒鬼). This study reveals various examples of folk beliefs through works.