reading notes: tibetan folk tales part B

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 A wolf fox and rabbit
There was a hunter who was made a cup out of a leaf and tried to drink from a stream. A raven flew into the cup and knocked out the water. the hunter thought it a fluke and filled his cup again. the raven again rammed into the cup. when this happened a third time, the hunter became very angry and shot the bird dead. After that, he wondered why the bird kept doing that, so he traveled upstream and found that the water was coming from the mouth of a giant serpent and that many skeletons lay dead next to the water. the bird saved his life and he killed him for it.

a wolf fox and rabbit all worked together to trick a traveler and steal his stuff. once they got the stuff, the rabbit decided how it was to be divided up. the shoes went to the wolf because he walked the most, but they proved to be too heavy and got him killed by a hunter. the fox got a bell for his children to play with, but it scared them to death. and the rabbit got the food, he had the best deal.

a rabbit had his mother killed by a bear. the rabbit wanted revenge so he killed the bear's son. he ran and found a tiger who let him hide inside his ear. the bear came and the tiger scared her off. the rabbit started eating some beats and the tiger asked what he was eating. the rabbit told him that he was eating his own eyeballs and the tiger then wanted some. the rabbit handed him a beet and he like it so much that he wanted to try his own eyeballs, as long as the rabbit could be his guide. they scooped out the tigers eyes and the rabbit gave to him a couple of beets.  the rabbit lead the tiger to a cliff and the started a fire on the other side, so the tiger got hot and rolled off. he told the farmer this so he could eat the tiger, then a wolf to eat the farmers sheep, then a crow to eat the eyes of the wolfs young. then the rabbit left town.


Story source: Tibetan Folk Tales by A.L. Shelton with illustrations by Mildred Bryant (1925).

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