Bari (Paridegi)

In An Illustrated Guide to Korean Mythology, Paridegi stands at the palace gate when she is asked whether she wants a bead or silk palanquin. She refuses both. Her body, she says, was abandoned as soon as it was born, so she will walk. The king and queen call in their seventh daughter and ask whether they threw her away out of hatred. They answer that anger drove them. Paridegi says she lived by the kindness of her grandparents. Time passes, and the king and queen become more ill. King Ogu asks whether anyone can get the medicine water kept by Wizard Musang.

Later, Paridegi is before Wizard Musang. He asks whether she has money for water or wood. She says she forgot. Musang orders her to draw water for three years, build fires for three years and cut wood for three years. Paridegi stays there three years for each task, nine years altogether. Musang then calls her a well-matched partner and asks her to marry him and bear seven sons. She agrees on the condition that she can serve her parents. They marry with heaven and earth as their pavilion, wisteria as their pillow, grass as their mattress, a cloud as their sunshade and the morning star as their candlelight. After seven sons are born, Paridegi says that love between husband and wife cannot make her put off serving her parents.