Ungnyeo

Bear who becomes a woman after twenty-one days of the prescribed abstinence from sunlight and diet of mugwort and garlic. She prays for a child; Hwanung marries her and she bears Tangun.

Children

• Tangun Wanggeom

Variant accounts

• source review correctionThe fulfilled transformation and prescribed trial have different durations in the primary text.Iryeon, Samguk yusa, book 1, Gojoseon entry (primary)

Powers

• Becomes human by enduring the cave trial

Relations

• spouse: HwanungSamguk Yusa Book 1 (primary)
• mother of: Tangun WanggeomSamguk Yusa Book 1 (primary)

Sources

• existence: Samguk Yusa Book 1 (Iryeon, 1281 CE); Jewang Ungi (Yi Seunghyu, 1287 CE — variant treats her parentage differently) (primary)
• Bear who becomes a woman after twenty-one days of the prescribed abstinence from sunlight and diet of mugwort and garlic. She prays for a child; Hwanung marries her and she bears Tangun.: Iryeon, Samguk yusa, book 1, Gojoseon entry (primary)