NO. 2168. OUTFIT OF KOREAN SORCERESS— CASANOWICZ. 



imps, and the bottle is beaten with peach twigs to reduce the imp to complete 

 lessness. The bottle is then delivered to a Mutang, and she is told to go in a ci 

 direction, which will prevent the return of the imp, and biu-y the bottle in the gr^ 

 The ciue is now supposed to be complete. 



The instruments of exorcism used by the Pansu are a drum, < 

 bals, a divination box, a wand or wands. 



FUNCTIONS OF THE MUTANG. 



More varied than the functions of the Pansu are the pacificai 

 and propitiations, called Icauts or Icuts, performed by the Mu< 

 The kaut may be carried out either at the house of the patient < 

 the home of the Mutang, or at some shrine or temple, called tang, * 

 cated to some spirits, which are seen on the liillsides in Korea. 1 

 is occasionally the case, the Mutang belongs to a noble family, s 

 allowed by her family to ply her trade only in her own house. T 

 who require her services send the required fee and necessary ( 

 ings, and the ceremony is performed by the Mutang in her own h 

 or at the tang. 



Her equipment consists of a number of dresses, some of 1 

 very costly; a drum, shaped hke an hourglass, about 4 feet 1 

 copper cymbals; a copper gong; a copper rod with small bel 

 tinklers suspended from it by copper chains ; ^ a pair of telescc 

 baskets; 2 strips of silk and paper banners wliich float around h( 

 she dances ; fans ; umbrellas ; wands and images of men and anii 

 (See Plates 108-111.) 



The service of the Mutang most in demand is the healing oi 

 sick. If a sick man believes that his distemper has been cause 

 a spirit, he sends to the Mutang to describe the symptoms and ] 

 what spirit is doing the miscliief. The Mutang may declare 

 name of the spirit without going to the patient's house, or maj 

 that she must see the patient first. On retaining her fee she ni 

 a "fortunate" day for the ceremony, which will be performed e 

 at her house or shrine or at the patient's house, according tc 

 seriousness of the ailment and the fee he can pay. 



A performance of such a kaut at the house of the patient is 

 scribed by Mrs. Bishop as follows : ^ 



In a hovel with an open door a man lay very ill . The space in front was matte 

 inclosed by low screens, within which were Korean tables loaded with rice ( 



> Some Biblical commentators explain the small golden bells which fringed the high priest's robe ( 

 (Exodus xxviii, 33; xxxix, 25) as a survival of the primitive practice of the employment of bells as £ 

 to frighten away demons and evil spirits. The custom referred to in Zechariah xiv, 20, of hanging 1 

 the foreheads and roimd the necks of horses, may also belong to the same circle of ideas. Numerou 

 bells, apparently amulets, have been found in the excavations of Gezer, Palestine; see Palestine E 

 tion Fund Quarterly Statement, 1904, p. 353, pi. 4, figs. 4 and 5. 



2 The baskets are used chiefly in the case of cholera, which is supposed to result from rats climbini 

 in the human interior. The scratching sound made by rubbing the baskets against one another, 

 resembles tlie noise made by cats, is expected to drive out those rodents. On other oeoasions tl 

 used to summon the spirits. 



» Korea and Her Neighbors, p. 350. 



