Reading Notes: Tibetan Folk Tales, Part B
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How the Rabbit Killed the Lion
- a lazy rabbit, not wanting to go pay respects to the king of animals the lion, lies to him about why couldn't go to him
- The lion demands that the rabbit show him where the she-devil was in the water and when the rabbit got there the lion saw his own reflection in the water.
- the rabbit yelled that the reflection was the she-devil and the lion jumped in to fight it and drowned himself
- there were three brothers that were all married and they had a little sister
- the wives of the two older brothers were jealous of the sister because the brothers gave her more attention.
- So, to get rid of her the kill her, and the two older brothers find out and kill them out of revenge
- In this story, a man stops to drink from a stream because he is so tired and thirsty
- he dips his cup into the stream and before he can drink it a raven flew by, knocking it out of his hands, and this happens two more times
- the man becomes irritated and kills the bird, but immediately wonders if the bird was trying to warn him, he goes downstream to investigate and finds that the water was poisoned and that the bird was trying to save his life
- This is a story about two old men, one good and one bad
- the good old man became rich from his good deeds and having a pure heart
- the bad old man ended up getting killed for his greedy ways
- In this story, a man's father gives him priceless information about who to trust and how he should pick his friends.
- the man ends up testing his wife on her trustworthiness and tests his friends to see if they were true or not
- after conducting his test he found his father's words to be true
- in this story, a rabbit and a frog are fighting over a prize and decide to settle the fight by racing up the mountain.
- the frog knew hed lose if he didn't think of something so he gets two friends to help him trick the rabbit and ends up winning.
- the frog ends up needing help getting the prize down the mountain so a duck flies in and helps him and they split the prize.
Story Source: Tibetan Folk Tales by A.L. Shelton with illustrations by Mildred Bryant (1925).
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