A WAYSIDE TEMPLE ON THE ROAD TO NO*NSATONG 



Buddhism held sway in Korea from the tenth to the fourteenth centuries, but has been 

 discredited in the kingdom for more than three hundred years, and the priests are an ignorant, 

 immoral, and despised cast. While Confucianism is the official cult, ancestor worship is uni- 

 versal. Belief in malignant demons is so widespread that much of the substance of the aver- 

 age Korean is dissipated in the propitiation of evil spirits. 





A SUPPLIANT AT THE TEMPEE OF GOOD FORTUNE 



For five days and nights he slept on the wet ground, praying at this shrine for relief from 



rheumatic pains. 



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