315-Korean folklore: Mountain Magic
Myths and Legends
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Chon Taurung's Journey to Soul
In the cello province, a turn of fortune can come for anyone. The same people that celebrate with you might not be the ones to dry your eyes. Chon Taurung had been an respectable family before Typhus fever claimed both of his parents while he was still in school. With no siblings or other relatives that he knew of, he found himself utterly alone. He begged up and down the street, talking and laughing for fifteen years. Now this, of body on a stretcher whisked away to lie unworned and unmarked grave.
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