People in Korea seek to rid themselves of all their distresses by painting images on paper, writing against them their troubles of body or mind, and afterwards giving the papers to a boy to burn. Another method of achieving the same object is to make rude dolls of straw, stuff them with a few copper coins, and throw them into the street. Whoever picks up such an effigy gets all tlie troubles and thereby relieves the original sufferer.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20322, 2 February 1928, Page 5
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