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| Image information: A picture of a fox and a tortoise, although neither of them are quarreling over portions: Source: Daily Mail |
Just a continuation of this weeks reading diary, guys. Feel free to ignore.
Married man fell in love with the most beautiful maiden he
had ever seen while playing the flute in the mountains. She refused to tell him
who she was, asking what business it was of his. He quickly realizes that she
is not exactly human. She tells him he will be faithful or be in constant
trouble forever and never see her again. (But how can he be faithful if he is
already married) He realizes that she and his and her sons are fairies. She
tells him again to keep her secret or he will never see her or his sons again.
He told his first wife in an effort to safe his first sons and in the process
lost his new ones. Regretted it for the rest of his life.
A man got high and thought he was attractive enough to marry
the princess of China. Threatened to take the princess by force if she would
not be given to him. A wager is proposed. All three men get the princess but
then fight over her. Only to realize that it is all a dream and the guy is
still getting his hair cut/looking into the mirror.
Heard a horror story premonition about his son. Decides to
lock him away forever to try to keep him from his fate. They even brought him a
wife to his underground chamber when he was old enough. And then she kills him
as a wolf, just like in the premonition. “Whatever is willed by fate, that
verily comes to pass.”
A search for luck. Is it actually luck or was it a man
stealing from the rich brother who took the poor brother for a fool. A king
that was a woman. Cool. I wonder what exactly that entails. Luck as an actual
personified character. Turns down a marriage offer from the King who was a
woman and then goes to the wolf and promptly gets eaten. Life’s rough.
A tortoise does all this work only for a fox who has been
granting him luck to come by and demand he be given a share. They quarrel and
the tortoise sets out to trick the fox because he knows that he cannot win.
Shame and confusion at his loss. Everyone who is greedy is put to shame.
A rich man falling on hard times. Once bought a large amount
of saffron for great amount of jewels, after he goes bankrupt he finds himself
in the house of the man who he bought the saffron from. Wind of annihilation.
Bad luck. Someone needed help to get back on their feet. Circle of help.
Children dying of hunger. Mother too poor to feed them.
Asking god to slay her because she can’t do anything about it. A wandering man
came to her aid and gave her a ring. She gave it to her baker who accused her
of being a thief and takes her to the police chief. Got her ears cut off. The Shah
finds out this happened to her and gets revenge on the baker.
A poor man sacrificed his own life so that he could pay off
his debtors and so that his wife could live in comfort. Every man speaks
according to his own intelligence. In the end the Khizr actually showed up and
saved the man’s life. He was given a village and money to go along with it in
return.
Giving extras to those who could benefit from the excess. A
man came along promising great wealth if the baker only acted as his servant.
Eventually tricked him into climbing into the skin of a cow and then tried to
cook him. He was rescued by a bird. But he goes back to his master to find a
way back down the mountain. The merchant had tricked him again and got him to
throw him treasures while there was no way down. He decides death by getting
eaten by fish was worse than dying on a mountain so he jumps into the river.
The fish save him (good deed for good deed). Revenge on the master, playing
into his own trick and making him throw down jewels just as the merchant had
done to him. The merchant died in the river because he had done no good deed to
the fish that lived there.
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