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Live Events Online Courses. Master Classes Webcasts. SLJ Projects. Privacy Policy. Subscriber Services. Contact Us. World Scientific. ISBN An additional purchase. Reviewed by Patricia D. Lothrop, formerly St. Get Print. Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit. Tales of the Sun or Folklore of Southern India. See all Indian folktale books 4. Japanese folktales Japanese fairy tales.

Green willow and other Japanese fairy tales. Filipino folktales. Submitted by users 1. Sang Kancil Counts the Crocodiles - Malaysian folktale 2.

The beggar and the miser - Arab folktale 3. The monk and the student - Chinese folktale 4. Mylene Leumin Goodreads Author. Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube. Craig Russell Illustrator.

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Hoa Pham. Lee Haring. Helen McAlpine Retelling. Yao-Wen Li. Ueda Akinari. Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford. Kazuya Minekura. Virgilio S. Almario Retold by.

David Conger Goodreads Author. Song Nan Zhang. Ralph E. Hayes Jr. Royall Tyler Goodreads Author Translator. Yuu Watase. Ramaswami Raju. Tsai Chih Chung. Murti Bunanta Retelling. Cindy Pon Goodreads Author. Stanley Rice. Yei Theodora Ozaki. Zhizhong Cai. Shirley Climo. Budjette Tan Goodreads Author. Dean S. Akira Toriyama. Michael Dylan Foster. Joseph Jacobs Editor. Marcia Williams. Sudha Chandola. Allison Lassieur. Philip F. Kennedy Editor. Alan Dundes. What do the learners think it means?

Are there any clues to its meaning? Early in the story, the following statement is made, "But, as wise folk say, a rich family's fortune is in its herds, a poor family's in its children. Likewise, at the end of the story, Aina-Kizz says to her father, "Father, where the rich keep their fortune, so the poor keep their cunning.

A girl's wise head is better than a man's full purse. Is this the lesson that the folktale teaches? Another story that comes from China is "The Clever Wife. What titles could the village folk have given the magistrate?

Letting this folktale give the learners clues as to the culture of the people and area, what aspects of the culture are revealed? What behavior traits are rewarded and encouraged? What behavior is seen as negative? Ask the learners to determine which of these "opposites" are demonstrated and explain how this is done in the story. What traits do they have in common? How are they different? How does their presence in their families emphasize the importance of strong families in society? Split the learners into two groups.

Assign the first half the task of researching King Hung Vuong and the dynasty he began which lasted for years and had at least eighteen kings. Assign the other group the task of researching the Tet festival see Bibliographical References. Let the groups report their findings. If Lieu had lived today, what characteristics would have been seen as important for him to be able to rule his country?

Is there an overlap of any of these characteristics or are the characteristics that were important centuries ago now of no consequence? Should modern leaders have any of these characteristics? Identify the lesson s of the story. Does the fact that King Karna had made a vow never to eat "until he had given away a hundredweight of gold in charity" reveal him as an extremely generous man?

Does the way he earns the gold negate his charity or is it a selfless act? When King Karna heard the birds singing, "Glory to Bikramajit! I let myself be fried and eaten every day in order that I may be able to give away a hundredweight of gold in charity, yet no swan sings my song! What convinces King Karna that King Bikramajit is more generous? In what real life situations is charity given in a competitive way? Is giving, motivated by competition, of less value? The next two folktales come from Iran ancient Persia.

The one thing he cannot change about his life is his unwillingness to spend money on necessities, which are symbolized by his old boots in this story. When Sayed leaves the mosque, he believes that God has chosen to reward him by leaving him a beautiful new pair of boots. Although Sayed was stingy with his resources, to others and himself, he believed that God would reward such actions. Why would he believe he was doing a good thing by being stingy?

By giving away nothing that he owned, Sayed may have believed that he was being frugal and no one was being harmed. Was this true? Can frugality or thriftiness masquerade as stinginess or selfishness where one is unwilling to give away possessions? What is the opposite of selfishness and how can it improve both the giver and receiver?