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Week 7 Reading Notes Part B: Laos

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Laos Folk-lore by Katherine Neville Fleeson Link Here
  • The Wizard and the Beggar
    • The Beggar was unappreciative and came to kill the wizard to get both of the jewels along with others.
    • The Beggar was ungrateful, so one of the two jewels were taken away by the wizard as he used to other to fly into the sky.
  • The Legend of the Rice
    • The people made the rice wait until they were ready, so now people on earth must gather it into the granary from the fields.
  • One Woman
    • "One Woman in Deceit and Craft is More Than a Match for Eight Men."
    • The quote above is the entire story in one sentence. She was clever and evaded death many times. 
    • Seven lovers wanted to kill her.
    • She killed all seven men by inviting them to a feast in which she poisoned.
    • Conned a man into burying the body for money, but if the dead "husband" comes to life, he shall receive none.
    • Chum Pow caused problems between the man who buried one of the lovers and a charcoal burner, so they both fought, fell into a fire, and burned to death.
    • I could definitely do something with this story. I would like to involve an old nursery rhyme, possibly, or maybe just the characters.
  • A Boy of the City Streets
    • "The Wisest Man of a Small Village is Not Equal in Wisdom to a Boy of the City Streets.
    • Talked the men into letting the boy tie them up, because "he was afraid they would leave him alone." The men agreed. The boy found a merchant and offered them as slaves. 
  • To Aid a Beast
    • "To Aid Beast is Merit; To Aid Man is but Vanity."
    • By this point, I am beginning to think that the stories are about not trusting people and tricking others for your own benefit.
  • The rest of the stories are usable in their own ways, with the same common theme.
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