Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2018 October 1

Does America have any Korean shamans that perform guts? ατόνος (talk) 21:55, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

:Guts are song and dance rites performed by Korean shamans, involving offerings and sacrifices to gods and ancestors. Here is an [https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-korea-shamans/korean-shamanism-finds-new-life-in-modern-era-idUSLNE85S00M20120629 Illustrated article about a gut in South Korea]. [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/06/world/asia/06iht-shaman.1.6527738.html A New York Times article] reports that "Under the pro-American military governments of the 1970s, there were shamans [in South Korea] who took General Douglas MacArthur as their deity. When MacArthur's spirit possessed them, they donned sunglasses, puffed on a pipe and uttered sounds that some clients took for English." I have not traced any gut performances in America. DroneB (talk) 00:15, 2 October 2018 (UTC)