• Withdrawing the Destiny of Mountains and Rivers
  • One summer day, while Sahng-jeh-nim was staying at Chey Chahng-jo’s house in Sae-ool Village, Sahng-jeh-nim ordered Chahng-jo to make a sack and fill it with three mahl of rice mixed with the ashes of straw.
  • He then said to Hwahng Eung-johng, “Take this sack to your house, put it in a large pot of water, and stir the water once daily.
  • Also, make seven bowls of sweet rice drink. I will go to your house in three days.”
  • Eung-johng went home and put the sack in water.
  • When he stirred the water on the first day, it turned the color of ash, and the sky also turned that color. There was no sun for three days.
  • Sahng-jeh-nim went to the house and said, “I will withdraw the great destiny of mountains and rivers.”
  • That night, He made a cone-shaped hat out of white paper and had Eung-johng wear it. Sahng-jeh-nim then had him remove the rice from the sack and spread it all around the yard.
  • He wrote something on 120 pieces of white paper and four pieces of Western paper and mixed them in the bowls of sweet rice drink. He said, “Deep in the night, when there are no passersby, bury these writings in the cesspool. Afterward, wash your face while still wearing the hat.”
  • Eung-johng did as he was told, and while washing his face, he discovered that between his eyebrows there was a wart the size of a bean.
  • 10 The next morning, when he looked around, he saw that none of the rice he had spread remained.

  • (JSD Dojeon 5,198)




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