구비설화에 나타난 생명 존중의 한 방법, ‘신화적 아버지’ 만들기 = Creating a ‘Mythical Father’ as a Way of Respecting Life in Folktale

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study was to confirm the methods of respecting life shown in the folktale. Accordingly, this study explored how to protect life in 〈The Land that a Dead Son Has Children〉. The way to protect life began with the girl’s father.
Therefore, in this study, the story was understood with the girl’s parents as the ‘Subjects of Epic.’ Virgin pregnancy is socially unacceptable. So the girl is in danger of facing physical death. Even if she escapes the danger of physical death, she is socially stigmatized and has no choice but to die. Accordingly, from the perspective of the girl’s parents, the important thing is to save her and her child. She must be spared not only physical death but also social death. For this purpose, the girl’s parents made her child’s father appear to be a divine being. Creating a father, a divine being, is like giving a new narrative to a virgin. When she created a father, a divine being, her virgin daughter and baby were able to live in this world.
In the folktale, the problematic situation of a virgin’s pregnancy and the problematic situation of the loss of the family line organically meet. And through an implicit agreement between the two families, a woman who was almost socially buried can live in the world with her baby. It was created so that one could continue life in a situation where death was inevitable, and this can be called ‘creating a mythical father.’ We don’t know who the baby’s father actually is, but if a mythical father is found, the baby can live a successful life. When viewed in modern times, this kind of mythical father-making can be seen as a kind of social design. It can be said that the virgin’s parents created a way for women and babies to live through the social design of creating a mythical father.
The maiden’s family practiced a method of respecting life through the social design of ‘creating a mythical father.’ And this reason is applied to many stories that are passed down orally and is passed down as a way to practice respect for life.

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