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The Sun and the Moon
Long ago, there lived a mother, brother and sister.
One day, the mother went to help at a party.
“Watch the house well. I’ll bring some delicious rice cakes back.”
The brother and the sister thought of the rice cakes and waited for their mother.
It became dark in the mountain. The mother was hurrying home worried about
the children, but a dark shadow appeared.
It was a scary tiger.
“I won’t eat you up if you give me a rice cake.”
The mother gave the tiger a rice cake.
But the tiger kept asking for more.
and ended up eating the mother, too.
The tiger put on the mother’s clothes and went to the house.
The children thought their mother was back and rushed to the gate,
but they were surprised.
“I-I-It’s a tiger!”
The tiger’s paw had sharp nails and the tiger’s teeth were scary.
The children hugged each other and trembled.
They ran to the back yard and went up a tree.
The tiger came to the tree and asked the children.
“Children, how did you go up the tree?”
“We used some sesame oil and came up.”
The brother answered quickly.
The tiger took sesame oil and tried to go up the tree,
but he slipped and fell.
The children laughed at the sight.
“Fool! You should have used an axe!”
The tiger used an axe and began climbing the tree.
The tiger’ strong paw almost got the children.
“Oh, god, help us! Send down a thick rope
if you want to save us,
and send down a bad rope if you don’t want to save us.”
The children closed their eyes and prayed.
Suddenly, a thick rope came down from the sky.
The tiger also prayed.
“If you want to save me, send down a thick rope,
and if you don’t want to save me, send down a bad rope.”
A bad rope came down from the sky.
The tiger didn’t even know it was a bad rope.
It climbed the rope and fell.
The tiger died.
What happened to the children?
The brother became the sun and the sister became the moon.