Like me—the mudang, most of them women, are also considered of lesser value. They rank among the whores, butchers, performers, and sorcerers—a notch above the slaves and untouchables. However, although the mudang are shunned in polite society, the desperate pay for their services—their abilities to summon deities, to speak for the dead. The mudang wear the clothes of both male and female, inviting possession by gods and goddesses. They are liminal, they are both, they are all-encompassing and beyond.
