Ureongi gaksi (Korean: 우렁이 각시, The Snail Bride) is a Korean folktale about a poor man who breaks taboo and marries a maiden who comes out of a snail shell until he loses his snail bride when a magistrate kidnaps her. The tale features an inter-species marriage in which a snail transforms into a woman and becomes the bride of a male human.
Ureongi gaksi (Korean: 우렁이 각시, The Snail Bride) is a Korean folktale about a poor man who breaks taboo and marries a maiden who comes out of a snail shell until he loses his snail bride when a magistrate kidnaps her. The tale features an inter-species marriage in which a snail transforms into a woman and becomes the bride of a male human.
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