Sunday, February 8, 2015

Reading Diary A: Persian Tales

Persian Tales

The Wolf and The Goat: This story was very interesting. The wolf stole the goat's babies by tricking them into opening the door. One ran away and hid though, so when the mama goat came back home and saw that there was only one baby goat, she got mad and found the goat and challenged him to a fight. She filled a bag full of nice presents for a man to sharpen her horns. The wolf was too greedy and just blew the bag up to make it seem full and gave it to a dentist. The dentist peeked and saw that it was just air. But instead of sharpening the wolf's teeth, he pulled the teeth out and filled them with cotton twists that looked like sharp teeth. The mama goat easily beat the wolf in a challenge and ripped his stomach open with her sharp horn. The wolf died and she took her babies back home.

Susku and Mushu: A little beetle name Susku and a mouse named Mushu who got married. Sushi fell into a river and was saved by Mushu. A little while later, Mushu asked Susku to make her a pot of soup. When he left she started to make the soup and when the blind blew, it swept her up and dropped her in the soup. When Mushu came home he saw that his wife had drowned. He then poured the ash on top of his head. The crow then shook his feathers out then the tree shook his leaves out and so on. Others pitied Mushu and Susku and injured themselves too. This story was a little weird.

The Wolf Aunt: A man, his wife, and seven daughters were very poor. The man gathered thorns every day and sold them to provide for his family. One day on his way back, he ran into a woman who claimed to be his sister. She said that she was rich and would provide for his family. He ran home and brought his family to live with the newly discovered aunt. Soon, they were well fed and clothed nicely. The wife was so thankful that she decided to cook the aunt a nice liver dish. When the youngest daughter went to deliver the dish, she saw that the aunt was actually a wolf and was eating a man! She ran home and told her mother who tried telling her husband. The husband wouldn't believe his wife and the next morning woke up alone. He told the aunt about what had happened and she turned into a wolf and ate him. If he had listened to his wife, he wouldn't have died.
(Wolf, Source: UnTextbook)

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