The Sun and Moon

Otter-Transcribed and edited


Once upon a time, there was a single mother who sold rice cakes to feed her two children. Every day she would climb through mountains and go into the marketplace where she would sell these rice cakes. And everyday she will come back climb maybe three mountains to bring her two children food. One day while going back home with a basket of leftover rice cakes upon her head, she meets a tiger. The tiger says to her if you give me one rice cake, I won't eat you. And so she says, Please, these are for my kids. They have been starving all day. But the tiger proceeds if you give me one rice cake I won't eat you and so the mother gets a tiger one rice cake but the tiger goes on again if you give me another rice cake I won't eat you tried to save some food for children she refuses have heard a tiger is too threatening not to relate to. And so this goes on over and over again until the mother has no rice cake left to give. The tiger says again if you give me another rice cake I won't eat you. The mother says trembling. I don't have any more rice cake. And so the tiger calls her up. But the tiger is still unsatisfied. He puts on the mother's clothes and walks to her house. Knocking on the door he tells the children to open up the door the son says to the daughter that doesn't sound like a mother. The to look underneath the door to check and see tillers paws a sharp claws. The son of the daughter on the way through the backdoor as a tiger stance they're trying to convince them to open the door. The Tiger sees them leaving and chases after them. Into a crate Cliff the children are cornered. They pray to the sky saying sky please help us survive from the sky to rubes fall. Relieved the son and daughter grab onto the rope and are lifted up into a sky with a tiger resist a cliff he sees that the children are escaping by the grace of the sky and so he prays up to the sky so sky please give me a rope and bless this good cat. The sky also since the tiger rope excitedly the tiger jumps onto the rope and is lifted up but the rope given to the head goes around one and when he was in the area, the rope broke and the tiger photos do. The two siblings who are lifted up into the sky become the sun and the moon. This is a folktale from Korea.

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