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Animism

Literal Translation
The belief that objects, places, and natural phenomena possess spiritual qualities. Present across many world traditions. The dokkaebi origin story — objects gaining spirit from long human contact — is a specific form of animism that runs through Korean folk imagination about the relationship between humans and the material world.