The Horse Mountain Ghost Summary

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Discussions about possessions interest me, or maybe it’s discussion about ghosts that interest me. I have read a few Japanese ghost stories that sent me running for the hills. It didn’t help some of those stories were animated at times, adding another creepy element beside the stories themselves. I hoped for a good, scary from reading Spirits of the Hanged. Before discussing the tale, I wanted to talk about the little prelude pertaining to Yuan Ch’an. This prelude is nice and ironic but also reminded me of The Horse Mountain Ghost (THMG). It’s practically the same thing with a different background/context. I found that pretty funny that the stories end with the creature saying, “I am a (demon, ghost, thing )” then they change into the creature they described. One last comment, the mentioning of “the worst” type of ghost being people who hanged themselves. This chapter talks about how the women are “ill-treated” which I wanted to say how obviously there should be a fairy tale or some kind of adaptation based on …show more content…

Trude combined elements of LRRH because of the back and forth dialogue as well as not doing as told, and THMG because of the beast revealing its true colors. Then, in “Trunt” when the giantess bewitched the man felt as if she as a mermaid leading seaman with beautiful voice, but instead using a simple, “Come hither” gesture. Von Franz’s connection to “Trunt” and The Spear Legs is true with the bewitching element. However, I still enjoyed The Spear Legs a lot more; it was creepy and weird while “Trunt” was kind of boring. I have a small last thought pertaining to the Uri story about the cattle people. Von Franz mentioned the significance of “Shall I let it go?” I read that and thought about Pandora’s Box for some reason. I wondered if he was letting go of the evil in Pandora’s Box in a way. However, Von Franz explained how the “it” could be a good thing as well as a bad one. I’m not sure; “it” sounds mysterious and evil, but “it” has a vague

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