Abstract

This study analyzed Women’s Schema and Trauma in Korean Folktale, GureongDeongDeong SinSeonBi.A total of 48 GureongDeongDeong SinSeonBi stories and their 48 narrators in Collections of Korean Oral Literature are selected as materials for this study. All 48 narrators are female, most of whom were married. This study, focusing on the fact that all narrators are female, analyzed Women’s Schema and Trauma in Korean Folktale, GureongDeongDeong SinSeonBi. According to narrators’ informations, it implies the possibility that GureongDeongDeong SinSeonBi contains schema necessary for women who have a family. This study confirmed women’s schema needed in patriarchal society in GureongDeongDeong SinSeonBi. Also, this study observed that women’s traumas brought on by an androcentric society are revealed in the process of dictating GureongDeongDeong SinSeonBi stories: Widows’ difficulties and their compensation mind, conflicts with sisters and sisters‒in‒law, and hostility on second wifes from concubinage and their compensation mind.