Case file · Apparition / miracle
Yi Sun-sin's dream before Myeongnyang
In his war diary Admiral Yi wrote that the night before the battle of Myeongnyang a divine man appeared in a dream and told him how to win and how to lose.
1597 CE · 34.57, 126.31 · status: account
The account
With 13 ships he then defeated a far larger Japanese fleet in the tidal strait of Uldolmok. The Nanjung Ilgi is on UNESCO's Memory of the World register.
The sceptical view
An anxious commander's dream, recorded by himself; the victory owed much to the strait's currents.