Shaman Ceremony In Jeju Folk Museum, Korea

It was very difficult to live in Jeju island as much as Switzerland in medieval ages.
Eventhough Jeju island was so beautiful, living in Jeju was not easy due to the bad circumstances.

Soil was not so futile for cultivating and it was too windy for fishing.
Usually fishing was a job of male, so it was not rare that all male of one village were dead in the sea at same day because of ship wrecking.

I don't know it was coincidence there were fishing ships in the center of the museum hall.

I took close shot.

So life of women in Jeju was so tough, they had to live with their kids without husband.

Very active Shamans ceremony was probably originated from those tragedies from the sea.
There were exhibited various ceremonies of Shaman around the museum as below.

Below are the tools for the Shaman's ceremony.

There were even official level ceremony for safety

It had been said there were 3 kinds of many things in Jeu island, women, wind and stones.
Life was tough to live in Jeju island.

Their lives had been continued with the tears of women.

Up until now, that kinds fo ceremonies have been continued and became the cultural heritage of Jeju island.