Kim Tok-saing

Kim Tok-saing had been a soldier honoured at court and had served several times as a general. A close friend had accompanied him on campaigns. More than ten years after Kim died, that friend woke with a cry in the night. He fell asleep again, then woke in fright once more. When his wife asked what had happened, he said he had seen Kim riding a white horse with bow and arrows. Kim told him that a thief had entered his former home and that he had come to kill him.

The friend said Kim rode away and returned with an arrow marked by blood. He reported that Kim had shot the intruder dead. The husband and wife discussed the sight with fear and wonder. In the morning, the friend went to Kim's old home to ask what had happened. He learned that Kim's young widow had decided to marry again. When her chosen fiancé entered the house during the night, a sudden, severe pain struck him, and he died before morning. The story joins the friend's nighttime report to the news he received at the house, without naming a cause for the man's pain.