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Heungbu and Nolbu

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Card meaning

Upright - binding a broken leg costs nothing. The small thing you do today becomes the gourd seed.

Reversed - break the swallow's leg on purpose and what comes out of the gourd changes.

The card meanings are a game.

The tale

Heungbu and Nolbu are brothers.

Heungbu mends the broken leg of a swallow.

The swallow brings a gourd seed, and the gourds yield riches.

Nolbu breaks a swallow's leg on purpose and does the same.

Something else comes out of Nolbu's gourds.

Where you can see this in Korea now

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

Sources

한국민족문화대백과사전 「흥부전」

국립한글박물관 「흥부전」 판본 해설

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