reading notes: japanese fairy tales part A

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two frogs standing atop one another
two separate frogs decided to go on a journey across their country. They both started on one end and were going were the other was coming from. they met in the middle atop a mountain and decide to climb ato the others back to see if where they were headed was worth it. they did this and stretched out as long as they could, but whilst their nose was facing the right town, their eyes were gazing upon the town they came from. They did not continue their journey, for they thought that the towns appeared to be the same, and they went home, not knowing how different the other town actually was.

there was once a women who was extremely beautiful. She was brought up to be kind and to work really hard. Both of her parents died and the mothers last wish was that she hide her beauty, so she would not be ill treated or preyed upon, or something like that. She found a wooden helmet and wore it at all times. She started doing some farm work for a man. The man's son one day came home and got a glimpse of her beauty. he asked for her hand in marriage, she said no. her mother came to her in a dream and told her to say yes, so when next the man asked, she said yes. They tried to take off the helmet for the wedding, but it was stuck, but then it eventually broke free and out came diamonds, but everyone was more amazed with how beautiful she was.

A story of a man and his wife, and their dog which they greatly loved. One day the dog found buried treasure in the yard and made them rich, they gave the dog all he could ever want after this. The neighbor got jealous and asked to borrow the dog, but when the dog did not find him gold, he killed him in a fit of rage. Next, the dogs spirit visited the old couple in a dream, and told them to cut down the tree and turn it into a mortor, when they did this, it got filled with gold. the neighbor asked to borrow it, but when it did not do the same, he got angry and burned it. and then one more thing happened with the ashes, that resulted in the neighbor going to prison.

Story source: The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford (1897).

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