Differences Between Rualka And Cho-Nue Gaining Marriage

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Getting marriage is one of the biggest life time event. Since early times, marriage was even more important than now. In many regions of the world, people used to believe that people could become adults by getting married. At the same time, people also share some emotions when certain events happened. One of them was death. People were afraid of death that they could not overcome. Especially, death of young people were considered as more sorrowful events. Moreover, people thought that people without getting marriage would bear deep grudge since they could not become adults. In some regions, people used to believe that people who ended with their lives without getting married would become ghost or monster and may harm other people because of …show more content…

Because they were dead without getting married, they were believed to have a deep grudge and harm people. Rusalka in Slavic folktale lives near the water. They are described as young beautiful women. They have considerably perfect body shape in their cultures. They are naked girls with big breasts, white skin. They are also decorating themselves with flowers. In addition to that, they have long and wet hair. They constantly drop water from their hair. They live near side of the water, and sometimes they play song or dance. At night, they attract male with their appearance. There are great verities in stories, but most of stories, when males are attracted by Rusalka, they kill them by tickle. While Rusalka homicides males, Cho-Nue Gui-Sin can kill people, but they may not kill people, but they harass other people. For instance, in some stories, they modified other people’s /gui/. Victimized people cannot get married or they may get diseases and causing death. Most of Korea movies or contemporary books describe Cho-Nue Gui-Sin as young girl with long hair, wearing blooded mourning clothes. On the other hand, their original appearances were different. It is actually hard to describe their appearances. In some stories, they are extremely tall. In some stories, people who see their faces are dead because seeing their faces would cause heart …show more content…

For instance, in some villages, young women in village dress like Rusalka and behave like Rusalka, and other people in the village make loud noise and chase them to drive Rusalka out from their village. After the chasing, people believed that Rusalki are not in their village naymore. In addition to that, there were many other forms of ritual acts were conducted from regions to regions. For instance, in some areas, people of villages conducted the funeral for Rusalka. People in village make dolls that look like Russalka. Dolls of Rusalki were made realistic. Those fabric dolls have realistic face components, and their coffin was decorated with flowers. People throw coffin to the water at the end of the funeral process. In some areas, dolls were burned up or destroyed by people at the end of the funeral. Rusalka was considered as un-cleaned death. After the Rusalka week, people sent Ruslka back into water, which was the symbol of