Reading Notes: Tibetan Folk Tales, Part B

                                                                                     Tibetan Folk Tales, Part B

"Panthera leo yawn". Wikimedia.
How the Rabbit Killed the Lion
-every morning all the animals would come to bow to the lion
-one morning the rabbit did not feel like going to bow to the lion; so the lion was angry with the rabbit
-the rabbit had to make up a lie, so the lion would forgive him and save his life
-the lion believed this lie and the lion asked the rabbit to take him to this devil so she could be confronted by the lion king
-the rabbit told the lion she was in the stream and then the lion jumped in and drowned

The Story of the Three Hunters
-the 3 brothers and 1 sister all lived together
-the brothers were all married and their 3 wives lived with them as well
-two of the wives became jealous of the sister, so they plotted to kill her while their husbands were out hunting
-the 3rd wife would not agree to help and she was devastated when they went through with it
-when the brothers returned they killed the two murderous women

The Man and the Monkeys
-the man fell into the lake and the monkey saved him
-the monkeys were kind to the man
-the man became greedy and jealous of the monkeys' home, so at night when they were asleep he shook them from their trees intending to kill them
-once they fell from the trees and were dead, the man walked home to get his family and move them there
-but on his walk home a monkey who reincarnated into a snake killed the man and swallowed him whole







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

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