A Kingdom Lost for a Drop of Honey: And Other Burmese FolktalesParents' Magazine Press, 1968 - 96 pages A collection of fifteen Burmese folktales including "Why the Rabbit's Nose Twitches" and "The Origin of the Coconut." Also contains a separate section explaining Burmese terms and customs mentioned in the stories. |
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Page 66
... BEE - HUNTER SAW a large hive on a tree and , climbing it , he smoked out the bees from the hive . As the bees were very angry and persistent , he was quite tired and dizzy by the time they finally fled and the hive was ready for him to ...
... BEE - HUNTER SAW a large hive on a tree and , climbing it , he smoked out the bees from the hive . As the bees were very angry and persistent , he was quite tired and dizzy by the time they finally fled and the hive was ready for him to ...
Page 70
... bee - hunter , without first ensuring that his elephant would not move away . The bee - hunter was also careless in not anticipating the likelihood of the elephant moving forward . The four young men were also negligent in not ...
... bee - hunter , without first ensuring that his elephant would not move away . The bee - hunter was also careless in not anticipating the likelihood of the elephant moving forward . The four young men were also negligent in not ...
Page 84
... bee - hunter should be a powerful cigar smoker , an agile tree climber and a good holder - on - er . His problems are complicated by the fact that not all bees build the same kind of nests . The common tree bee constructs a hive that ...
... bee - hunter should be a powerful cigar smoker , an agile tree climber and a good holder - on - er . His problems are complicated by the fact that not all bees build the same kind of nests . The common tree bee constructs a hive that ...
Contents
Foreword | 11 |
Mister Luck and Mister Industry | 18 |
Why the Rabbits Nose Twitches | 24 |
Copyright | |
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asked bamboo shoots bamboo thorn baskets became bee-hunter bees boat brass dish brass ladder Buddhist Burma Burmese calf called cattle chamberlain colt cool dispute driving spear DROP OF HONEY drunkard elephant farmer fight my enemy fisherman folktales fried fish ghosts gold dish Golden Crow golden ladder gong greedy girl hair head headman herdsman house lizard inside my stomach jackal jaggery Judge Rabbit jumped king king's laughed little girl live longyi looked Mandalay mats meal mischief-maker Mister Industry Mister Luck monsoon Moon-goddess morning mortar moss mother muddy water Naga night ogre oozie opium-eater otter pagoda parasol partnership pleaded poor traveler pots of gold Princess Learned-in-the-Law rafts rain replied Master Thumb rotten egg sesamum plant seven pots shouted silver coin sire snake stallkeeper surprise tamarind tattooed tiger toddy toddy-climber village village at sunset water jars wear wild pheasant woman zayat