Horangi devoured the siblings' mother, donned her clothes, and pursued Dal-nim and Hae-nim up a tree before falling to its death from a rotten rope sent by heaven.
Hwanung set Horangi and the bear a trial of endurance — twenty-one days in a dark cave sustained only by garlic and mugwort — promising human form to whoever prevailed. Horangi fled, but the bear endured and became the woman Ungnyeo.
⚠ The Samguk Yusa specifies samchil-il (three sets of seven days, i.e., 21 days), though some later retellings extend the trial to 100 days.
In Korean folk tales, Horangi crouches at Sansin's feet as servant and mount, carrying messages to villages, punishing the wicked who trespass sacred peaks, and guiding lost travelers home at the mountain spirit's command.
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