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Generally, Doggabi is known as the god of big catch. However, in the story of Doggabi, sometimes they are objects of reverence but sometimes they become objects of eradication. In the fishery related Doggabi stories, they appeared like human, fire or Heotbae shape in the seaside at midnight or in the dawn and showed a capability of determining the catch of fish. However, people tended to eradicate Doggabi actively if it was related to human life. Doggabi related to fishery ritual had no different shape other than fire shape, and was recognized as an object to pray for wish. Such differences are derived from an experience of encountering Doggabi. The reason why Doggabi is expressed in the shape of a human is because it is not easy to express invisible objects specifically. And, the eradication of Doggabi takes place because of the encounter with human being. The encounter between human being and Doggabi can cause problems because they share the same space. Therefore, if a human encounter Doggabi directly without the medium of ritual, it might cause a problem that made people fear. In turn, it leads to some cases of eradicating Doggabi.