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Overview

Allen gives pe chu kuh ruk as the name of a bird heard in remote mountain places and says its song warns that robbers are near. When it comes to a hamlet, its call instead announces a rice failure requiring people to eat millet. This brief account supplies no plumage, species identification, personal origin or spoken warning. The predicted danger and harvest are beliefs reported by the historical collector, not demonstrated forecasting powers.

Omen bird whose call warns of robbers or a failed rice harvestHistorical folklore notice
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Origins & earliest records

Korea; accounts presented by Allen

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Records & interpretation

Entire chapter and collection preface directly read.

Selected bibliography

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  1. 01

    Korean Tales

    III, The Rabbit, and Other Legends, p. 31

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Primary records and illustrations

Direct primary record

H. N. Allen, Korean Tales (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889)

III, The Rabbit, and Other Legends. p. 31

Entire chapter and preface read; brief notice kept proportionate. Narrator’s uncertainty and limits preserved. No individual teller or original Korean edition identified by the passage.

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  1. Historical English translation and narrative noticesAllen, Korean Tales (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889), IIIResearch access: 2026-10-05

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