The Spring of Youth

Card meaning

Upright - one mouthful is enough. What you need today is less than you think.

Reversed - the one who drank his fill cannot walk home.

The card meanings are a game.

The tale

An old man in the mountains finds a spring that makes the drinker young.

He drinks one mouthful, grows young and returns.

A neighbour goes to find the spring and drinks a great deal.

The neighbour turns into an infant.

The rejuvenated old man carries the baby home in his arms.

Where you can see this in Korea now

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

Sources

한국민족문화대백과사전 「젊어지는 샘물 설화」

국립민속박물관 한국민속대백과사전 「젊어지는 샘물」