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Overview
Allen reports two white-heron legends. In one, a bird breaks off its own bill while desperately ringing a temple bell to save a man; the paragraph supplies neither the man’s danger nor the eventual outcome. In the other, a hunter shoots a snake threatening young herons, and their mother later saves him by pecking to death a snake that entered his stomach as he drank from a spring. The telling expressly says her pecking does not injure him. These are separate notices rather than a single expanded adventure; the second bird is not said to ring the bell or lose its bill.
Origins & earliest records
Korea; accounts presented by Allen
Records & interpretation
Entire chapter and collection preface directly read.
Selected bibliography
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Korean Tales
III, The Rabbit, and Other Legends, p. 33
Family & connections
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Primary records and illustrations
H. N. Allen, Korean Tales (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889)
III, The Rabbit, and Other Legends. p. 33
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.
References
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- 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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