This week on Myths and Legends it's the story of Chong Taurong and in it we learn that a sleep

over is not an invitation to move in and also that maps are helpful even if you're working with

a magic mountain. Then on the creature of the week it's a creature that's a hoax or is the hoax

a hoax meaning that there are actual sea monsters in upstate new york.

This is Myths and Legends episode 315, Mountain Magic.

This is a podcast we tell stories from mythology and folklore. Some are incredibly popular

stories you might think you know but with surprising origins. Other stories that you might

not have heard but really should. Today's story comes from Korean folklore.

Set in the early 1500s and we open on the street in the bustling city of Seoul.

Jungno or Bell Street as it was known came to life before dawn.

More to life some argued seeing us have the east-west strip and southern Seoul never slept.

Either way by the time the sunlight trickled onto the stones clusters of servants and

attendants of the wealthy and important already filled the square around a steady flow of people

and also he was among them. No employer no boss no home a friend to all the workers it seemed

he called himself Chong and through smiles and laughter the others added

Torong a person a son not a man not a husband he was defined by what he wasn't. I mean he did

look the part flowing hair streaming down to his back that whipped in the wind the appearance of a

bachelor a bachelor in his 40s who slept on the side of a building there was a harshness to his

features made worse by the smudges of grime across his cheeks caked onto his brows and packed

beneath his nails the people who passed that gave him a wide berth sneered that was why he didn't

have a family all that was known was that he was dirty always dirty and with a scratchy bag draped

over one shoulder the open end synched between his fingers. Chung Torong was a beggar a man with a

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