홍콩할매귀신
Description
홍콩할매귀신(영어: Hong Kong grandma ghost)은 1980년대 후반에서 1990년대 초까지 초등학생 사이에 널리 유행했던 괴담이다. 초등학교에서 학생들에게 괴소문에 동요되지 말 것을 호소하는 등, 사회적 파장이 컸던 괴담이었다.
Origin & Background
The Hong Kong Grandma Ghost is a ghost from an urban legend that became widely popular in Korea in the early 1990s.
The Legend
The story spread that a grandmother who died in Hong Kong merged with a cat, becoming a creature that is half human and half cat. Rumors circulated that it crawled quickly and abducted children, instilling fear among elementary school students. It is a representative example of school ghost stories from the 1990s and symbolized the fear of going to and from school at that time.
In Popular Culture
The Hong Kong Grandma Ghost was a widely circulated ghost story among elementary school students from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. It had significant social repercussions, such as schools appealing to students not to be swayed by ghostly rumors.
Sources: 1990년대 도시전설 채록 (compiled from public materials)
Abilities
- Supernatural power
Weaknesses
- Certain rituals
Sources
- 위키백과
Genres
Story Hooks
- 홍콩할매귀신(영어: Hong Kong grandma ghost)은 1980년대 후반에서 1990년대 초까지