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Overview
The cat negotiates with a rat chief on the dog’s advice: in exchange for help recovering the amber charm, the two predators will leave the rodents, including mice, unharmed for ten years. Relays of rats gnaw through the soapstone box over months. When the cat still cannot reach the object, a mouse enters and the group works it out through the narrow hole. They renew the pact afterward, and the story’s conclusion explicitly says that the dog never again harms a rat. The account gives no crown, giant size or transformation to the chief and does not separately recount Thomas’s later observance of the agreement.
Origins & earliest records
Korea; accounts presented by Allen
Records & interpretation
Complete wine-jug tale, note and collection preface directly read.
Selected bibliography
Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.
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Korean Tales
IV, The Enchanted Wine-Jug, pp. 48–51, concluding promise p. 55
Family & connections
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Primary records and illustrations
H. N. Allen, Korean Tales (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889)
IV, The Enchanted Wine-Jug. pp. 48–51, concluding promise p. 55
Entire chapter and preface read; brief notice kept proportionate. Narrator’s uncertainty and limits preserved. No individual teller or original Korean edition identified by the passage.
References
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- Historical English translation and narrative noticesAllen, Korean Tales (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889), IVResearch access: 2026-10-05
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