Week 6: Indian Fairy Tales
Week 6 Reading
The Lion and the Crane
The Lion and The Crane Story Source - Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1912).
- The crane sees the lion choking on a bone
- The lion asks him to remove it but the crane is scared that the lion will eat him
- the crane props up a bone so he cannot eat his and removed the stuck bone
- The crane asks what the lion will do is return for this favor and he says nothing
- The crane flies away
The Broken Pot Story Source - Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1912).
- A poor man collected friend enough to eat and filled the pot with his leftovers
- He said that couple of goats and then eventually l have a whole herd of goats. Then, with the goats, I'll buy cows and as soon as they have calved, I shall sell the calves. Then, with the calves, I'll buy buffaloes; with the buffaloes I'll buy mares. When the mares have foaled, I'll have plenty of horses; and when I sell them, plenty of gold. With that gold I shall get a house with four wings. And then a Brahman will come to my house, and will give me his beautiful daughter, with a large dowry.
- They he tripped and broke his pot
The Magic Fiddle Story Source - Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1912).
- A girl made dinner for her brothers every night and their wives got jealous
- Their wives went to their husbands and the brothers requested that she get water from the pond
- The girl did so but drowned in the water because her brothers didn't answer her call
- She reincarnated into a bamboo tree and a man came by and chopped her down to make her into a fiddle
- This fiddle became the best playing fiddle and many tried to buy it from him
- One day the girl who was both bonga and girl left the fiddle and a man saw her and captured her
- He said they must be in love and she agreed
- She saw her brothers again because they asked her husband for money and they did not recognized her
- She told they how hurt she was and that was her only revenge
The Cruel Crain Outwitted Story Source - Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1912).
- The Crain tricked fish into eating them until their was only a crab left
- The crabs heard the same story the fish did but was suspicious and held onto the crabs neck instead of in his mouth
- The Crain tried to eat him like the fish and he said if one does we both die
- As soon as the Crain lead him into the pot he cut his neck
The Tiger The Brahman and The Jackal Story Source - Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1912).
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