Dokkaebi

Card meaning

Upright - unexpected wealth arrives with unexpected mischief. Today's strange offer is settled by one round of wrestling.

Reversed - hook the left leg or you lose. Count your winnings in the morning and they may be leaves.

The card meanings are a game.

The tale

A dokkaebi appears at night in something like human shape.

In the tales it strikes a club and goods come out.

It wrestles people and leaves its treasure behind when it loses.

The tales say it likes horse meat and buckwheat jelly and hates blood.

At daybreak every trace of it is gone.

Where you can see this in Korea now

We have not yet measured which places connect to this tale.

Sources

한국민족문화대백과사전 「도깨비」(한국학중앙연구원)

국립민속박물관 한국민속대백과사전 「도깨비」