One of the most bad domestic deities in Korean folklore is the ghost who says that he is haunting toilets. If you do not come in with respect, Cheuksin wrap your long hair around the neck and you will die to death when you are the most sensitive in the toilet.
Ah, public toilets – a universal hotspot for supernatural nightmares. If you thought that Japan has a monopoly on haunted bathrooms with aka Manto and Hanako-san, think again. South Korea has its own toilet deity, and she is bad, violent and living in the stroke with injury and murderous intention.
Cheuksin (厠神), the goddess Outhouses and one of the most terrifying ghosts in Korean folklore since the times when the toilets were darker, cooler and outside the family home. He doesn't ask you mysterious questions such as Aka Manto, and not only makes amazing sounds like some Wimpy Poltergeist. No, Cheksin takes her to a completely fresh level-with a murderous rage, long snake hair and an explosive temperament.
Legend: Outhouse goddess
Long before state-of-the-art internal hydraul, Korean households consisted on the barts – petite, isolated constructions separated from the main house. People have always felt rather defenseless, sitting in the toilet, more exposed and scared. And because the old-school Korean-Korean-south-south was shadowy, amazing and full of dirt, of course something that had to be lived there.
Go to Cheuksin, a toilet guard, a latrine queen and a nightmare of everyone with a feeble bladder. Her cult is a petite part of Gashin's cult and is not the most eminent home deity. Was not bowelSo shamanic rituals dedicated to Cheuksin, unlike other domestic deities. It happened because it was supposedly a bad and evil spirit, more like a toilet spirit than the goddess.
The unit says he has several names in years and places. Her name was Cheukganshin, Byonso Gwishin, Dwitgan Gwishin, Buchul Gaxi, Chikdo Buin Other Things.
It is said that she appears as a teenage girl, something that is said that she was once, her hair with a length of 150 cm and it is said that she spends time counting hair strands, furious to be banished as a toilet spirit in breeding. The original texts said that she was presented as a cohabitation in fancy clothing, but today Cheksin is mainly shown as a ghost in the white, like Korean virgin ghosts.
When the spirit of the toilet appeared, the Koreans usually avoided toilets for three days a year, when the date had the sixth number in them. Like the sixth, sixteenth and twenty -sixth day in the lunar calendar. Or when someone dropped a shoe or a child fell into the toilet. Or even when she was incensed for some reason.
When this happened, the Koreans had a ritual called Jesas dedicated to toilet spirit, often offering Tteok, which means a cake of dung rice or rice with unclassified, everyone considered evil spirits. It also happened when the pig fell ill or when they built anility.
She was a unsafe gashin or home -made deities and hated children. She liked to press them to the toilet. If Jesa was not immediately to peaceful her down, the child who was pushed down is lived to grow up.
It was believed that Cheuxin embodies a trip of fabric or white paper on a coastal ceiling. He is cleaning over this, watching and waiting for stupid mortals who dare to enter.
When entering the extravasors, you should cough three times. Cheuksin was known for using her long hair to attack the intruder, if not, her hair resembling a snake slides from the ceiling. She waited for her victim to be the most sensitive, wrapped long hair around the neck and strangled those who offended her to death. If she touched you with your hair, you got unwell and die, and no Mudang or shaman could lend a hand you.
If you run away from her initial attack in some way, don't think you're safe and sound. Cheuksin can curse you, making sure you bear the terrifying misfortune after leaving her domain. People who ridicule her or forget to show respect often fall in a mysterious or suffer from stern accidents.
Beginnings: Where did this nightmare come from?
Cheuksin is deeply rooted in Korean shamanism and folklore, from centuries. It was once considered a household deity, part of Gasin (家神), the family ghosts of the guardian that protected different parts of the house. Each of them had its rituals and goal and was worshiped for a long time. Today, however, tradition is mostly extinct, although there are some traces that are still ongoing, mainly as ghost stories.
The gods of Genshi are located in Munjeon Bonpuri (Korean: 문전본풀이), which means'“Book of the door”And it is the myth of the island of Jeju regarding deities who are considered living in the house. In this story, the entire lists of domestic deities are presented as they were once human, alive and good until they ended as persistent ghosts.
What about Cheksin? Who was she?
As a woman became the goddess of the toilet – Munjeon Bonpuri
Noiljadae is the best villain of this tragic Korean folk and be truthful – he is as cruel. He begins as a charming daughter of the innkeeper, who seduces the gullge of Namseonbi, convincing him to waste his wealth in wines and gambling. He doesn't know it yet, but ultimately he will become the eminent spirit of the toilet of the nation. When her lover is rinsed and useless, he kicks him to the curb, leaving him to blind and starve in a muddy hut – a classic “used and rejected” case.
But Noiljadae will not end yet. When the devoted wife of Namseonbi, Yeosan Buin, arrives to save him, Noiljadae lures her to the DNA icy lake and drown her. Then he assumes the identity of Yeosan Buin, thinking that he intends to live a luxurious life with the Namseonbi family. Unfortunately, for her the youngest son, Nokdisaengin, is not a fool. He sees her lies quickly and sets a clever trap: when he demands his liver as a medicine for his false disease, he cheats on her to eat wild liver. When she pretends to heal, her fraud is exposed and her fate was sealed. The clogged one hangs in the bathroom.
For her wickedness, Noiljadae is cursed to become a Cheuksin, a vengeful goddess of the toilet, forever exiled into the most muddy corner of the household. By revealing by the child, they are hated to them. Her hostility with the resurrected Yeosan Buin, currently the goddess of cuisine Jowangsin, creates a divine injury, which leads to a long -term Korean taboo: never place the bathroom next to the kitchen. Because even after the death of the malice, Noiljadae continues.
Goddess of the toilet in the state-of-the-art world
While other ghosts, such as Jowangsin (the god of cuisine) or Seongjushin (God of the House), were worshiped by victims and prayers, Cheksin was a more necessary evil. You didn't worship her – I was afraid of her.
Her work? To keep order in the most muddy part of the house. If people did not respect the toilet, they would punish them. If they follow the rules, she would just remain hidden.
Cheuksin has many similarities with the Chinese goddess of the toilet, although Chinese poets treated their heritage a little nicer. In both stories she was a concubine or lover and died in the toilet forever to persecute her. Only that in China the goddess was worshiped and worshiped, while in Korea she was simply … well. He was afraid.
But when Korea is modernized, and the outbreak became a past, Cheuxin disappeared from the widespread conviction to the usual whisper of a good history of ghosts. Despite this, it is said that some antique buildings and rural areas are haunted by it, especially in places where antique traditions still remain.
References:
Cheuksin: a generous story about the Korean goddess of the annex – Kraze
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