The Gold Axe and the Silver Axe

Upright - a day to answer as it is when asked. Only one of the three is yours.

Reversed - claim all three and you keep none.

The card meanings are a game.

A woodcutter drops his iron axe into a pond.

A mountain spirit appears and shows him a gold axe, then a silver one.

He answers that neither is his.

The spirit gives him all three axes.

A neighbour copies him and ends up losing his axe.

We have not yet measured which places connect to this tale.

한국민족문화대백과사전 「금도끼 은도끼」

국립민속박물관 한국민속대백과사전 「금도끼 은도끼」