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Overview

When Uhn Hah’s army reaches the rebel country, heavy rain prevents action. The spirits of soldiers sacrificed through their commander’s deliberate withholding of rations appear in officers’ dreams and say they will permit no royal success until their deaths are avenged. The king first imprisons the commander and sends his son for execution at the front. After the son’s death and a feast for the spirits, the storm ceases and the troops prevail; the commander himself is executed later. These successive actions are preserved rather than making the requested and immediate victims identical. The account describes no visible ghost bodies or individually named dead.

Angry dead whose dreams explain rain blocking a rescue campaignHistorical folklore notice
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Origins & earliest records

Korea; accounts presented by Allen

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Records & interpretation

Complete Ching Yuh and Kyain Oo narrative and collection preface directly read.

Selected bibliography

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    Korean Tales

    Horace Newton Allen, translator and narrator · 1889

    V, Ching Yuh and Kyain Oo, pp. 86–87, within pp. 56–88

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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)

V, Ching Yuh and Kyain Oo. V, Ching Yuh and Kyain Oo, pp. 86–87, within pp. 56–88

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), VResearch access: 2026-10-05

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