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The Story of Chang To-ryong

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The historical Korean collection introduces Chang To-ryong through a world of Taoist immortals, sacred mountains, spirits, and the pursuit of transformed existence.

Gale's introduction explicitly places the story within Korean understandings of Taoist immortality and sacred places. That framing makes the tale useful for showing how literary wonder stories can sit beside religious ideas without being reducible to them.

Loreveil presents the story as a historical literary witness. It does not treat Korean Taoism as a vanished fantasy system or claim that one tale represents every Korean religious tradition.

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Curated relationships invite comparison without implying that distinct traditions are the same.

Sources & citations

Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Fairies ↗

Im Bang and Yi Ryuk. Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Fairies. Translated by James Scarth Gale. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1913.

Im Bang and Yi Ryuk; translated by James Scarth Gale · J. M. Dent & Sons; digital edition by Project Gutenberg · 1913

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