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Overview
Reports place Kil Tong in all eight provinces at once, and each governor sends a captured man to court. The eight look exactly alike; when his father identifies a scar on the left thigh as the test, all eight display it. One also produces medicine that revives the fainting father. When guards try to execute them, their life has departed and they prove to be figures of straw and wax. The account does not describe the making of the figures, distribute eight independent souls among them or identify one as the original human hero.
Origins & earliest records
Korea; accounts presented by Allen
Records & interpretation
Complete Hong Kil Tong narrative and collection preface directly read.
Selected bibliography
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Korean Tales
IX, Hong Kil Tong, pp. 185–186 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. 185–186 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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