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This study attempted to investigate the issue how stepmother’s narrative was transferred to <Simcheongjeon>. For this agenda, the approach of this paper is described below to determine how Bbaengdeok’s stepmother narrative was transferred episodically to <Simcheongjeon>. First, this paper started from the relation between stepmother narrative and <Simcheongjeon> affiliated with each root folk tale in Buddhist text. Among <Jeondongja>·<Bubmyodongja>·<Sayohime>· <Sunwootaeja>·<Mokryugumo>·<Wonhongjang>·<Hwangchunmuga>·<Hoynye jieun> known as root folk tale until now, this paper investigated whether <Jeondongja>·<Bubmyodongja>·<Sayohime>·<Sunwootaeja>·<Mokryugumo>· <Wonhongjang> was the root folk tale affiliated to Buddhist literature. At that point, stepmother narrative showed relation with opening eyes motive. It has been reported that the text of opening eyes in Buddhist literature is originated from the south. This paper confirmed that <Simcheongjeon>’s stepmother narrative was related to Buddhist literature originated from south. Next, this paper investigated the background of opening eyes motive of stepmother types. After entering Gyeongpan <Simcheongjeon>, it formed Bbaengdeok narrative of Wanpan <Simcheongjeon> related to Literary geography of Jeollado enjoying space of Wanpan <Simcheongjeon>. There are two evidences for this. The first one is <Woomoknangsang> which was passed down around Jeollado. In the course of sudden Buddhist folklore’s flow into the country, it is <Woomoknangsang> that combined stepmother narrative of sudden Buddhist literature with the characteristics of northern Buddhist literature which was reconstructed into son’s filial behavior of northern Buddhist literature to make father’s blinded eyes open. The other is the Buddhist trend of the late 18th Chosun when northern Buddhist literature and sudden Buddhist literature were combined. It appeared that stepmother narrative was formed in the Buddhist background of the late 18th Chosun when northern Buddhist literature and sudden Buddhist literature were combined.

<Simcheongjeon>, root folklore, stepmother narrative, northen Buddhist scriptures, sudden Buddhist scriptures, wanpan, <Jeondongja>, <Bubmyodongja>, <Sayohime>, <Sunwootaeja>, <Mokryugumo>, <Wonhongjang>, <Hwangchunmuga>, <Hoynyejieun>