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Ahn Seung-hi dances the sword dance (Kal tchun),
the fan dance, the butterfly dance, the gypsy dance
(the most exotic for us) and the dance of the
Mou nyo, the sorceress, the matchmaker of the dead.

(As late as 1933 one could still find the « union of pious
persons » registered in Seoul -gathering all sorcerers
and sorceresses in awareness of their rights.)

With her little bells, her large-handled knife, her fans,
her feathered hat, slow at first, then successively
casting the bells, the knife, the fans, casting her gaze
in the end -her mouth stretched out by the frozen
speed, like the pilots of supersonic jets -the passage
of the Wall of the Dead, given over to all the blows
and insults of the dear departed, a screen shredded
by their nails, a window shattered by their cries
-Aigo! Aigo! the cry of mourning and suffering-
falling exhausted, her throat burning with the oxygen
of hell, paying the passage of the Styx with the money
thrown to her, Aigo!

« Some of them are quite pretty, » writes Haguenhauer,
« and not only the spirits are touched by their
charms. »