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 83
... rice seedlings , frighten them away with a noisy bamboo clapper . Rest on a cool bamboo mat in your house , with rafters , walls and floors of bamboo . ( see p . 33 and 56 ) ; furnish your house with objects and utensils of bamboo ...
... rice seedlings , frighten them away with a noisy bamboo clapper . Rest on a cool bamboo mat in your house , with rafters , walls and floors of bamboo . ( see p . 33 and 56 ) ; furnish your house with objects and utensils of bamboo ...
Page 90
... rice . The man who plants the rice fields is called a paddy farmer , and the fields are called paddy fields . The white , long - legged slender birds that try to eat the young seedlings in the paddy fields are called paddy birds . The ...
... rice . The man who plants the rice fields is called a paddy farmer , and the fields are called paddy fields . The white , long - legged slender birds that try to eat the young seedlings in the paddy fields are called paddy birds . The ...
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... rice ( see p . 35 ) from every Buddhist household in the village . The family that gives gains merit for so doing ... RICE CAKE : The big rice cake Master Thumb asked his mother to make in the story , " How Master Thumb Defeated the Sun ...
... rice ( see p . 35 ) from every Buddhist household in the village . The family that gives gains merit for so doing ... RICE CAKE : The big rice cake Master Thumb asked his mother to make in the story , " How Master Thumb Defeated the Sun ...
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 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 دو