The Fairy and the Woodcutter

Card meaning

Upright - where something is hidden, the relationship stands on top of it. Today, count what you have hidden.

Reversed - the later the day of returning it, the higher the bucket has to be drawn.

The card meanings are a game.

The tale

A woodcutter follows a deer's advice and hides a bathing fairy's feathered robe.

Unable to return to the sky, she lives with the woodcutter.

After children are born he gives the robe back.

She takes the children in her arms and rises to the sky.

In some versions the woodcutter follows her up in a well bucket.

Where you can see this in Korea now

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

Sources

한국민족문화대백과사전 「선녀와 나무꾼」

국립민속박물관 한국민속대백과사전 「나무꾼과 선녀」