선녀와 나무꾼
The Fairy and the Woodcutter
한국 전래동화
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옛날 깊은 산속에 늙은 어머니를 모시고 홀로 사는 가난한 나무꾼이 있었어요.어느 날 나무를 하던 나무꾼 앞으로 사슴 한 마리가 헐레벌떡 뛰어와 살려 달라고 애원했어요.나무꾼은 얼른 사슴을 장작더미 뒤에 숨겨 주었고, 뒤쫓아 온 사냥꾼들은 사슴을 찾지 못한 채 돌아갔어요.
목숨을 구한 사슴은 고마움의 표시로 나무꾼에게 특별한 비밀 하나를 알려 주었어요.보름달이 뜨는 밤이면 하늘의 선녀들이 몰래 내려와 산속 연못에서 목욕을 하고 간다는 것이었어요.사슴은 선녀 한 명의 옷을 숨기면, 그 선녀는 하늘로 돌아가지 못하고 땅에 남게 될 거라고 말해 주었어요.
다만 사슴은 아이를 넷 낳기 전에는 절대로 그 옷을 돌려주지 말라고 신신당부했어요.보름달이 뜬 밤, 나무꾼은 연못가에 숨어 있다가 목욕을 마친 선녀들 중 막내의 날개옷 하나를 몰래 숨겼어요.다른 선녀들은 하늘로 날아 돌아갔지만, 옷을 잃어버린 막내 선녀는 그 자리에 홀로 남겨졌어요.
나무꾼은 울고 있는 선녀에게 다가가 사정을 설명하고, 갈 곳이 없다면 자신의 집에 머물러도 좋다고 따뜻하게 청했어요.선녀는 처음엔 슬퍼했지만, 나무꾼과 그의 어머니가 정성껏 돌봐 주는 사이 점점 마음을 열었고, 두 사람은 진심으로 서로를 아끼게 되어 마침내 부부가 되었어요.몇 해가 지나 두 사람 사이에는 사랑스러운 아이가 셋이나 태어났어요.
어느 날 선녀는 나무꾼에게, 하늘을 날던 그 시절이 그립다며 자신의 날개옷을 딱 한 번만 다시 보고 싶다고 부탁했어요.아내를 사랑했던 나무꾼은 넷째 아이가 태어나기 전이었지만, 그녀를 믿고 마음이 약해져 결국 날개옷을 꺼내 주고 말았어요.옷을 입은 선녀는 그 순간 세 아이를 양팔에 꼭 안고는, 눈물을 흘리며 하늘 높이 날아올라 가 버렸어요.
혼자 남겨진 나무꾼이 슬픔에 잠겨 있을 때, 예전의 그 사슴이 다시 찾아와 마지막으로 한 가지를 더 알려 주었어요.하늘에서는 매일 밤 커다란 두레박을 내려보내 산속 우물의 물을 길어 간다는 것이었고, 나무꾼은 그 두레박 속에 몸을 숨겨 하늘로 올라갈 수 있었어요.하늘에 도착한 나무꾼은 마침내 아내와 세 아이를 다시 만났고, 그 후로 온 가족이 함께 행복하게 살았답니다.
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Long ago, deep in the mountains, there lived a poor woodcutter who lived alone, caring for his old mother. One day, while he was cutting wood, a deer came running up to him out of breath, begging to be saved. The woodcutter quickly hid the deer behind a pile of firewood, and the hunters who came chasing after it went away without finding it.
Grateful for having his life saved, the deer told the woodcutter a special secret in return. On the night of the full moon, heavenly fairies secretly came down to bathe in a pond deep in the mountains. The deer said that if he hid one fairy's robe, she would not be able to fly back to heaven and would have to remain on earth.
But the deer warned him firmly never to give the robe back until she had given birth to four children. On the night of the full moon, the woodcutter hid by the pond and secretly took the robe of the youngest fairy after the bathing was done. The other fairies flew back up to heaven, but the youngest one, having lost her robe, was left behind all alone.
The woodcutter went to the crying fairy, explained what had happened, and warmly offered that she could stay at his house if she had nowhere else to go. The fairy was sad at first, but as the woodcutter and his mother cared for her with such devotion, she slowly opened her heart, and in time the two of them came to truly love each other and were married. Several years passed, and the two of them were blessed with three lovely children.
One day the fairy told the woodcutter that she missed the days when she could fly, and asked if she might see her old robe just once more. Loving his wife and trusting her, the woodcutter's resolve softened, and even though their fourth child had not yet been born, he finally brought out the robe and gave it to her. The moment she put the robe on, the fairy held her three children tightly in her arms and, in tears, flew high up into the sky and was gone.
As the woodcutter sat alone, sunk in sorrow, the very same deer came to find him once more, with one last piece of news. Every night, the deer said, heaven lowered a great bucket to draw water from a mountain well, and by hiding inside that bucket, the woodcutter was able to be carried up into the sky. When he reached the sky, the woodcutter was finally reunited with his wife and their three children, and from then on the whole family lived happily together.
이해도 확인
1. What did the deer warn the woodcutter never to do?
2. What did the fairy do once she put the feather robe back on?
3. How was the woodcutter able to see his family again?
핵심 단어
noun
나무꾼
namukkun
woodcutter
가난한 나무꾼이 산에 살았어요.
A poor woodcutter lived in the mountains.
한줄 요약
In 1–2 sentences, say how the woodcutter first met the fairy, and how he was finally reunited with his family.
출처: Based on 선녀와 나무꾼 (Seonnyeo-wa Namukkun), an anonymous traditional Korean folktale passed down through oral storytelling and long in the public domain. This simplified retelling and its English translation are original text written for SeoJae Story. The tale has several traditional endings — some end with the woodcutter separated from his family forever; this retelling follows the gentler, well-known version in which he is reunited with them in the sky.
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