Case file · Apparition / miracle
King Sejo healed by a divine boy
Sejo, troubled by a skin disease after usurping the throne, bathed at Odaesan where a boy scrubbed his back and healed him, revealing himself as the bodhisattva Manjusri.
1466 CE · 37.79, 128.56 · status: legend
The account
A second tale says a cat tugged the king's robe to stop him entering the hall where an assassin hid; Sangwonsa has stone cat statues in its memory. Sejo had the temple rebuilt in the 1460s and a statue of the boy Manjusri carved.