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The Korean folk tale "Gold Axe, Silver Axe" originates from Greek Aesop's Fables, titled "The Woodcutter and Hermes." In the original, it was the Greek god Hermes—not a mountain spirit—who retrieved the axe from a river, not a pond.
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