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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · May 23, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 21.

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By Mimi Scharffenberg

SEOUL.— Just at present we are in the midst of the Korean holiday season. These days our magazine workers can not do much, for the people have so many superstitions. On one day no one is allowed to enter any other person's yard, for that means some great calamity. So if one of our workers goes into an unbeliever's house on such a day, he is at once ordered out, and the people feel that they will meet some great calamity.
One day we saw the people making little men out of straw, and throwing them out. The straw god is to represent the person, and to take upon itself all the ailments, trials, etc., that the spirits may have inflicted upon the man. After the straw god is thrown away, the man will have rest and peace for one year.
The first fifteen days of the Korean year have some special meaning to every heathen.
MIMI SCHARFFENBERG.