Reading Notes: Tibetan Fold Tales part A

Tibetan Folk Tales, collected by Albert Shelton

The Story of the Two Devils
I like in this story how the fortune-teller was a fraud, but he was still able to help the prince.  Much of what he did was pure luck.  That would be fun, writing a story about a character who is unable or unwilling to save the day, but actually ends up saving it.

The Ingratitude of Man
I like in this story how the animals that the traveler saved helped him because he helped them.  The traveler doubted that they would help, and assumed that the man was the trustworthy one, but was proven wrong.

The Tiger and the Frog
This story is actually extremely similar to a joke that I read in a joke book when I was little.  It had the same punch line of a two larger animals going to gang up on a smaller animal, with the smaller animal making a false comment about how the one of the larger animals was supposed to bring him a large animal for supper.  It would be fun to have the end of a story be similar to a punchline.

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Panthera tigris tigris, Source: Wikimedia Commons

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