After the danger has passed, the deer, in gratitude, promises to help the young man find himself a wife: if he continues his journey up the Diamond Mountain, he will find pools of water where eight heavenly maidens will come from the skies to bathe in the ponds; he can make one of the maidens his wife if he hides her under-garments, and bids him never return her the garments, only after she has given birth to four children.
With this information, the young woodcutter decides to check on the ponds for himself the next morning, and climbs to the top of the Diamond Mountain.
He waits for the arrival of the maidens: they descend a rainbow, land on earth and place their garments near a pine tree.
While the girls play and splash in the water, the woodcutter steals the garments of the youngest maiden, and lies in waiting for their departure.
At sunset, the maidens finish their playtime, don the garments and fly back to Heaven, save for the youngest of them, left stranded on Earth.
Surprised at this event, the woodcutter falls into a state of grief, then decides to search for his wife back at the place he first found her: the top of the Diamond Mountain.
He decides to pay a visit to his mother, despite his heavely wife's pleas that he may not return, and is given a magical dragon-horse that takes the woodcutter back to Earth.
However, the bowl is so hot it startles the dragon-horse, which flies back to the Heavens, leaving the woodcutter stranded on Earth and unable to meet his family ever again.
In gratitude, the deer tells she is the daughter of the Mountain God and directs the woodcutter to a pool where seven nymphs, the son-nyo, will bathe.
[22] In a Korean tale published by Eleanore Myers Jewett with the title The Wife From Another World, a handsome poor youth named Chang Py-ong lives by the foot of a mountain.
After the hunters ride to another direction, the stag thanks Chang Py-ong and offers to indicate where the youth can find himself a wife: beyond the forest and up the mountain, a valley exists with a spring where maidens from the Other World come to bathe in, and he is to steal the "shining wings" from the one he fancies best.
It happens thus, and Py-ong materializes from behind the bushes to console the stranded spirit-maiden, then takes her down the mountain to his house, where he was being expected with a marriage feast.
After the birth of each children, the spirit-maiden begins to feel homesick, which pains Py-ong, but he remembers the stag's advice and does not return her wings.