English: Distribution of life replacement narratives across second-level administrative divisions of South Korea. In these shamanic myths, a man (or men) is forewarned of his impending death and makes offerings to the chasa, the gods of death who kill those whose time is due and take away their souls to the afterlife. The chasa unwittingly accept the offerings before realizing that that they have accepted gifts from the man that they were supposed to kill. As they cannot ignore his gifts, they decide to spare his life and take the soul of another human or animal in his place. Source file on Commons. Source for data: "<장자못> 전설과의 비교를 통해서 본 <장자풀이>의 인물 형상화 방식과 신화적 의미" by 최원오, 2017.