Ha Yun

The story begins at Ha Yun’s old family seat in Keum-chon, a large mansion that his children occupied for years after his death. One day, a servant opens an upstairs crock used to hold flour and sees an enormous snake inside. Startled, the servant reports it to the master. The master orders his men to bring the jar down; they break it open and release the snake. Several servants attack it with clubs and kill it.

The household then piles wood onto the snake and sets the whole thing alight. Vile fumes fill the house. The tale says the fumes kill the people of the place, leaving no one to represent the family. Others who later enter the house also die, and the site becomes cursed and desolate.

Some time later, a mysterious fire breaks out and burns the remaining buildings. Only the vacant site remains. The source ends with its local reputation: people still call the place haunted and no one ventures to build there. It does not explain the snake’s origin or prove that the story’s supernatural events happened as history.