Description
From jade-green valleys threaded with morning mist to palace roofs sharp as wings against the moon… Korean Fairy & Folk Tales gathers the time-worn legends of the peninsula ?stories carried through mountain hermitages, fishing harbors, royal courts, rice-terrace villages, and market streets where gossip and memory travel together. Within these pages you will meet tiger spirits who judge human pride, ghosts who demand truth from the living, cranes who deliver blessings, mischievous dokkaebi with magic hammers, scholars who outwit fate with a clever line of brushwork, and talismans shaped from kindness, humor, patience, and audacity. Once told to the sound of wind rattling bamboo shutters, these tales spoke to the child who longed for marvels and to the adult who knew that righteousness is sometimes sharper than steel. Korean tales are not merely supernatural ?they are records of endurance, dignity, family honor, and the quiet embers of hope guarded in difficult times. Open these pages, and Old Korea will breathe again ?familiar, startling, and vividly alive.
Ürün Adı: Korean Fairy & Folk Tales
Ürün Kodu: 9786258507294
Yazar: William Elliot Griffis
Basım Yılı: 2025
Kapak Türü: Karton Kapak
Sayfa Sayısı: 152
Kağıt Cinsi: 2. Hamur
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