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Overview
After killing a kidnapper chief, Kil Tong faces the surviving captors and finds his own powers inadequate. He summons spirits described as his old friends, printed quay sin in Allen’s romanization. Swords flash in the air and strike off heads until the band is destroyed. The spirits receive no individual names or bodily descriptions, and no pact explaining their earlier friendship is given. They are not automatically equated with the separate spirit that earlier makes his father ill, or with the human women who conduct an unsuccessful exorcism.
Origins & earliest records
Korea; accounts presented by Allen
Records & interpretation
Complete Hong Kil Tong narrative and collection preface directly read.
Selected bibliography
Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.
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Korean Tales
IX, Hong Kil Tong, pp. 189–191 within pp. 170–193
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)
IX, Hong Kil Tong. IX, Hong Kil Tong, pp. 189–191 within pp. 170–193
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), IXResearch access: 2026-10-05
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