She is very impatient to wait the date, the fifteenth of the month. Even with the arrival of the date, if the full moon doesn’t appear, she should wait another month. Even with the appearance of the full moon, if a black man doesn’t come, she should wait still another month. Still even with the coming of a black man, if she cannot capture him right there, she should repeat again and again the waiting of his appearance. This is the destiny of a shaman, who wants to borrow the special ability of a black man.


On the date of the fifteenth, by lunar calendar, she goes to the place where two courses of the river water meet into one. People called the place ‘Dumulmory’, which means the head place where two waters meet into one. She must arrive before the ‘Time of Mouse’, which in orient means from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m., still more she must be there just alone. And in the place where nobody is to be seen save herself, she should wait him in a sheer darkness over the night. Any sign of her presence would make him go away, so she should be very careful not to make any noise, even holding her breath as best as possible. Of course, the task is something very unendurable, but under her circumstance now, she knows she has no other options.


The man appears only while the full moon is in the sky, so if it happens to be rainy or cloudy, her waiting would be null and void. At any rate, if she is lucky enough, he will appear before the moon sets.

When the Time of Mouse is well passed, and even the Time of Cow, from 1 to 3 a.m., is almost passing, she suddenly hears that somebody is running around with loud splash. Somebody is running around the water of the river, oh! yes, it must be he himself, he came! It is not an established rule, but there is one thing that you should keep. That you must not look straight at him. If the case happens, the shaman’s heart will be frozen to stop throbbing. Looking at his body only, she should run toward him to hold him without any moment’s notice. Embracing tight one of his legs, she should cast a spell ‘You should come to my place with me’ three times with a loud voice. With frozen heart, it is nevertheless to say that it would never be a easy task.
A sheer dark night, only with a full moon shinning, and a robust black male person! Even for a male with enough boldness, it is not an easy situation to endure. But the person who is enduring the situation is only a female shaman, somewhat aged. Until now, her life itself has always been inextricable with this kind of situation. If it had not been, she absolutely would not dare to endure the terrible moment.
With casting a spell three times, the shaman is accompanied by the black man. He follows her to her house without any resistance. What if any passer-by would see him on the way? It is none of your worries. He is far from a being who is seen by anybody and everybody like you and me. He is a being who is to be seen only by a few persons who have high degree of spiritual power just like the shaman.
At the house of the shaman, you can usually see that it is lined with guests who want their fortunes to be told. And it may well be, because she tells their fortunes with surprisingly marvelous correctness. And the secret of the correctness is from the black man. The shaman shakes her bell in hand with much loudness and asks something to the black man, and he tells something about the guest to the shaman. And only the shaman could listen to and understand what the black man is saying. The past of the guest, other current affairs, and even what will happen to the guest in the future! To the guest’s surprise, the past and current affairs are told by the black man and repeated by the shaman with such exactness that there is no other way for the guest but to make sure what the shaman speaks out about his or her fortune in the future. Fee money for her fortune telling is piled up in front of her, and if the guest’s life is to be along the unfortunate way of life, so the driving his bad fortune away becomes a must, much more money is expected to be given to the shaman.

To be Continued