This is a very popular folk tale in Korea called "Sun and Moon". The story starts with a mother going back home to her son and daughter from a festival, carrying a basket of rice cakes. A tiger appears in the mountain and asks for rice cakes. The tiger appears multiple times until the mother runs out of rice cakes to give and the tiger eats her. The tiger dresses like the mother and goes back home where the two siblings are. The older brother realizes that it is not the mother and runs away with his sister through the back window. The tiger chases after the siblings and the siblings use an axe to climb a tree. At first the tiger could not climb the tree and the siblings laugh at the tiger. However, the sister accidentally tells the tiger that he can use the axe to climb the tree. Now that the tiger knows how to climb, the siblings were in great danger again. The older brother prays to god and a rope comes down. The siblings hang on to the rope and fly to the sky. The tiger also prays for a rope, but a rotten rope is sent down. The tiger climbs on and the rope rips apart, making the tiger fall to the ground. In the end, the older brother becomes the moon and the sister becomes the sun.
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