As we consider the foundation of the pre-historic Korean culture, there is a inclusive correlation between many motives of Korean folktales and the shamanistic belief. From this point of view, there are many shamanistic motives reflected in the Korean folktales. These are otherworld-journey motif, hole․cave motif, helping animal motif, and cosmic tree․world tree motif, etc. I think that these motives have a close correlations with the shamanistic belief. The hero tale which has a literary mode having a long tradition is equal to shamanism in the type and the motif. So I think that shamanism includes such archetype of narrative as hero tale.