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Overview
Cho Uhn Hah is associated with her mother’s dream of a banished attendant of the Queen of Heaven, punished for disrupting the annual star lovers’ bridge. As a child she receives You Pang Noo’s ancestral feather fan, bearing his pledge of marriage. Her refusal of another arranged match brings persecution and exile upon her family. After her parents die she travels in male dress with her nurse, preserving the fan even when Pang Noo’s father imprisons her as its supposed thief.
A mysterious old man knows her identity and gives her a pill promising superhuman strength; his hut is gone when she wakes. She later proves that strength by throwing a large ornamental stone over a wall and displaying remarkable sword skill before the king. Leading a rescue force, she encounters rain attributed to the ghosts of betrayed soldiers, then defeats the rebels after their appeasement. Pang Noo is recovered, and their wedding receives royal patronage. Her disguise is ordinary clothing, the sword’s fiery ring is a comparison for its rapid movement, and neither is described as bodily transformation.
Origins & earliest records
Korea; accounts presented by Allen
Records & interpretation
Complete Ching Yuh and Kyain Oo narrative 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
V, Ching Yuh and Kyain Oo, pp. 56–88, especially pp. 61–65, 74–88
Family, evolution & connections
Uhn Hah and Pang Noo’s households — Allen’s telling
Two stated parental households whose children marry at p. 88.
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- Separate households — their children later marry
- You Tah Jung and his unnamed wife
- Cho Sung Noo and his unnamed wife
Named fathers and birth episodes, followed by an explicit wedding. The root groups two households, not a shared ancestor. Both mothers are unnamed wives of the respective fathers. Birth dreams concern banished attendants; the human lovers are not the prelude’s Ching Yuh and Kyain Oo. The king sponsors the wedding without becoming a biological parent.
Cho Sung Noo in Allen’s human-lovers narrative
Cho Sung Noo and his unnamed wife have the daughter Uhn Hah. The preceding celestial pair and the mother’s dream are separate from these named earthly parents.
Primary records and illustrations
H. N. Allen, Korean Tales (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889)
V, Ching Yuh and Kyain Oo. V, Ching Yuh and Kyain Oo, pp. 56–88, especially pp. 61–65, 74–88
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), VResearch access: 2026-10-05
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