There once was a princess of bad luck. When the time came
for her to choose her husband, several men were interested, however of all the
men, she chose a beggar. She chose the beggar because she said he was a man of
good luck, and thought that by choosing him, she would have good luck as well.
Her husband left for 18 years in search of finding the two of them a fortune.
The father of the princess was so mad at her decision to choose a beggar that
he wanted nothing to do with her. During those 18 years, the princess almost
starved to death several time, thank goodness her mother would sneak her food
and money on occasion. Then one say a man came by, the princes recognized him
as a powerful emperor. The emperor asked her about her husband and if she
wished to marry someone else. She said she would be faithful to her husband
until the day she died. The emperor then revealed that he was her husband and
had found his fortune. They went back to his palace and celebrated every day
for the rest of their lives. Of course, seeing as how the princess was of bad
luck, she died 18 years later, and the emperor lived for many years after her
death.
[This story may be interesting to tell as if a young woman
got married and her family disowned her for it. Her husband leaves to go work
in the military or oil field and returns several years later really rich or
something like that. ]
There once was a
family with seven daughters. One day, the father found 7 eggs and brought them
home with the intention to share them with his wife. The next morning he awoke
only to find that the mother had given the eggs to the children who had woken
up while she was cooking them the night before. The father was so mad that he
devised a plan to take his children into the mountains, leave them there and
allow for the wild animals to kill them. When he asked if the children would
come with him to see their grandmother, only the two youngest agreed to go. He
took them and dropped them off in the mountains. When the two finally realized
that he would not be coming back they took shelter in a nearby cave they saw,
turns out the cave was full of jewels. But when the fox and wolf that lived
there came back, they did not see them. In the morning, the girls woke up and
saw the wolf and fox. They were very frightened. They decided to make a fire
that would be so big it would kill the fox and wolf. When the fox and wolf woke
up to a fire they begged to be let out of the cave but the girls refused, and
eventually the animals died. They lived for many days in the cave. When finally
one day the heard a knock on the cave. Turns out, their father was so stricken
with grief after leaving them that he had come back to find them. They showed
him the jewels, went back to their house and lived the rest of their days as
very wealthy people.
There was a family of two girls, a mother, and a young
brother. One day the mother and little brother left to go visit their
grandmother. While the mother and brother were out, a panther approached them
and talked to them. They told the panther where they were going and where they
were from. Eventually the panther killed and ate both of them. The panther took
the mother’s clothes and headed over to their house to kill the two girls as well.
While at the door, the panther was asking to be let in and the girls were very
skeptical that it was their mother. They eventually let the panther in. The
panther told them to go to bed. While they were in bed, they heard the panther
eating something so they got up and asked to eat some as well. The panther gave
them a finger, which they soon realized was their brother’s finger. They ran
and climbed up a tree. They then tricked the panther into a basket so they
could raise him up the tree as well. While they were raising the panther up the
tree, the started banging it back and forth. The panther was so scared it
jumped out of the basket and then revealed itself to the girls as the panther
and not their mother. The panther ran away but the girls knew it would be back.
The following day, several people stopped by and gave them things to help
defeat the panther. And when the panther came back to eat the girls again, it
worked and the panther was killed.
A man and woman had a ring that was powerful enough to make
sure they always had enough money to get by. However, the couple did not know
of this power and sold the ring for a small sum. They soon began to go hungry,
and since they were hungry so was their dog and cat. The dog devised a plan.
The cat would catch a mouse and make the mouse chew a hole into the chest of
where the ring was being kept by its new owner. So the dog helped the cat
across a river to go get the ring. The mouse did as it was told for it feared
its life. Then the dog helped the cat back over the river again on their way
home. After the reached the other side of the river they were on their home
stretch. The cat was able to crawl over the buildings and so it got home much
sooner than the dog who had to run around the buildings. The cat presented the
ring to the owners and never gave the dog any credit. The cat was then treated
like the owners own child. And when the dog came home, he was beaten for not
helping the cat and locked outside. The dog was very upset with the cat, and
chased and growled at it for every day after that.
I read this story twice, and still didn’t really understand
this. A ruler of the heavens, a mother, and Oerlang are involved though.
Oerlung was destroying suns or something, when they said he had to leave one
sun to keep things alive. He was then made into a god, and was to rule of the
earth.
This story is very similar to the one before it. I am not a
fan of the names that are hard to distinguish and also when there are too many
things going on at once. It makes the story very difficult to understand. I did
not like this story. There was a lady of the moon, some emperors, and
sorcerers. There was music? I honestly just don’t understand the point or moral
of this story. It is much harder to understand than the first few stories were.
This story was kind of disturbing. A girl’s father went on a
journey and so she was left to take care of their horse. Eventually she was so
lonely that she told the horse that if he would go off, find her father, and
bring him back that she would marry the horse. So the horse immediately left,
found the father, and brought him back to the daughter. When the daughter told
the father what she had promised the horse, the father shot and killed the
horse. He then hung the skin of the horse out on their land. The father then
left and went back on his journey. Then one day the girls and a neighbor were
walking together, the daughter shoved the horse skin and said how it was a
stupid animal to believe it would marry a human. Immediately the horse skin
wrapped around the girl and took her away. The neighbor was stunned. They went
searching for the girl and found her hung from a tree in the horse’s skin and
was starting to cocoon. They then made the cocoon into silk. She then became
the goddess of silk and protecting the silkworms. The people then worshipped
and built temples for her. It was a weird story.
God of War is Guan Di, real name was technically Guan Yu.
Guan Di and several of his friends made a pact to be friends forever. One day
he was ambushed by an enemy land and taken prisoner with his son. Guan Di
refused to join his enemy, so him and his son were killed. As a result, several
other people died. He appeared to a monk after his death as a god.
Basically a priest pulls a fast one on a farmer. The priest
asks the farmer for one of the pears the farmer is selling for free. The farmer
says no. So an artisan went and bought a pear for the farmer. The priest then
said that he would take the seed from the pear and be able to give pears to
everyone. While everyone was watching him plant the seed, and water it, the
priest pulled a fast one on the farmer and took his entire cart of pears and
distributed them to the crowd. The farmer did not see him do this since he was
watching the seed and plant grow. When the farmer went back and saw his pears
and cart were gone, everyone laughed at how foolish he was.
So this was a very confusing story. There was a scholar that
moved into a supposedly haunted house. What he didn’t know was that they were
haunted by ants. The ants would battle and feast, and dance. One day their King
made fun of the scholar for studying and said he needed to join them. So the
scholar started to attack them with his books, they scurried away. So the
scholar dug up the hole where they went, found a huge ant nest, and smoked and
killed them all. That was my best understanding of the story at least.
This was an odd story. It seemed to be kind of similar to
the King of the Ants story. From what I could gauge, a scholar moves into a
house and is bothered by little people/vermin the size of grasshoppers. He gets
a dog that helps devour these vermin. I think the dog was small as well. And
then I think what the end of the story inferred is that he accidently rolled
over one day and killed the dog and vermin. That’s what I understood but like I
said it was confusing.
There was a farmer out one night and he saw a fox that had a
ball of fire elixir that came from his throat. One night, the farmer stole it and
with this he was able to help people, be in contact with the spirit world, and
do pretty much everything. It made him very wealthy. Thirty years went by and
the fox came back to the farmer one night and stole it back from him.
There was so much that happened in this story that it is
hard to understand. I felt like a lot of it was just thrown together. It talked
about a special temple and how outside of this temple were some talking foxes.
A farmer tried to whip one of them, which scared it. There was a possessed
woman. And then at the end there was an archer that attacked, and killed a
talking fox. So now they don’t show themselves anymore.
Basically a young boy, Ma, witnessed a water carrier slip,
fall, and die. His father was with the young man and so he dragged him out to
the riverbank and acted like he had no idea what happened. Years went by, and
when Ma was much older he saw the water carrier again. Apparently he had been
reborn. The story ends with someone else being killed and the child not saying
a word about it again.
So a merchant stayed the night at a battlefield. He
basically saw the ghosts of an old general who was able to dissemble his entire
body. When he woke up he was out in a field instead of the inn he was supposed
to be staying at. The innkeeper told him that since it was an old battleground
that weird stuff like that happened all the time. Not a bad story, but it was
drawn out quite a bit.
One day a tornado came along and swept up a maiden, it took
her to the top of a very tall building. When she was there, a young man was
there as well and told her it must be fate that they were brought there and
asked her to marry him. She refused him. He got upset and locked her in the top
of the building. He came every day with food, water, and presents to try and
get her hand in marriage but she refused. He made it impossible for her to
escape. One day, after he left and she looked out the window, she noticed that
the man turned into an ogre after he left. She was terrified. Soon after she
saw a young man walking around, and so to get his attention she dropped her old
clothes down to him. He saw them, looked up to the tower and saw the figure of
what he thought was a woman. The clothes he thought looked familiar so he took
them to the parents of the girl who went missing from the tornado. The parents
confirmed they were hers. So the parents had her brother go fetch her. He took
an axe and cut the arm of the ogre, and then went and rescued his sister.
A monk was walking through the woods when he came across a
girl in a red coat. She asked him to please not tell anyone that he had seen
here for people were looking for her. A man later came up on a horse and asked
the monk about the girl. He denied saying he saw her until the man told the
monk that it was actually a flying ogre and it needed to be killed. The man
also said that he had been send from heaven to kill the ogre. So the monk
pointed to a large tree the ogre went into, and the man went and killed the
ogre.
A Sorcerer was very powerful and had several pupils that
were learning from him the way of dark magic. The pupils kept letting him down,
and one even insulted him. So the sorcerer turned the child pupil into a pig
and sold him to a butcher. The child’s father came looking for him, and when he
found out what happened to his son he was outraged and went to the king. An
army came to arrest the sorcerer. They put the sorcerer, his wife, and his son,
in cages and started off toward the king. On the way they met a giant. The
sorcerer said that his wife could stop the giant, so they let her out, and the
giant swallowed her up. Next the sorcerer said surely his son could stop the
giant, but when they let the son out, the giant swallowed him up. At last, the
sorcerer was let out to stop the giant. They fought for a while, until finally
the giant swallowed him, and started to walk away. The soldiers then realized
that they had been tricked by the sorcerer.
There were three evils, a dragon, a tiger, and a man named Dschou
Tschu. When Dschou found out that he was
one of the evils, he went and killed the tiger, then the dragon, and then went
and enlisted in the army to serve his country and get away from putting them in
pain. They loved him for this and saw him as a hero. He died by the sword in
battle.
There was a terrible custom that sounded like what they did
was they would take a young girl, give her presents, marry her, and then
sacrifice her to the river gods. This happened every year, and one year they
were determined to end this terrible curse. They picked one girl, and in the end
they drowned a witch and a sorcerer, and everyone else was so scared that they
ended the wedding tradition forever and sent the girl home to be with her
family and live happily ever after.
They killed Yang’s cousin and then determined that they must
kill her as well. The emperor was sad about this and tried to protect her but
she was hung from a pear tree. A magician went looking for her for the emperor in
the after life but the magician could not find her. He found her on a thrown
and told her that she would be reunited with the emperor in 12 years. She was a
great spirit and the emperor was happy to know they would be reunited again.
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