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Kongjwi and Patjwi

Card meaning

Upright - a day for pouring water into a leaking jar. If the toad comes, it is because you did not stop pouring.

Reversed - look at the jar first. Carry water past a leak and the whole day is water.

The card meanings are a game.

The tale

Kongjwi loses her mother and lives with a stepmother and her daughter Patjwi.

The stepmother orders Kongjwi to fill a jar with a hole in its bottom.

A toad plugs the hole, and birds and an ox help with the other tasks.

On her way to a feast Kongjwi loses one of her shoes.

The search for the shoe's owner leads to her marriage.

Where you can see this in Korea now

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

Sources

한국민족문화대백과사전 「콩쥐팥쥐」

국립민속박물관 한국민속대백과사전 「콩쥐팥쥐 설화」

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