Mythology and Folklore KT

This story is also in my Portfolio:  Tales told by a Bookworm   The Monster and the Mittens One day I was taking a leisurely stroll through the woods.  I had never been to this part of the woods before.  I stopped to get a drink from the stream, when I saw two little kittens playing on the rocks nearby.  I said hello and waved.  The kittens looked up, and screamed very loudly.  They pointed to something behind me, and shouted something that I didn’t quite understand.  They looked very frightened.  I must have just missed what they were pointing at, because when I looked behind me I didn’t see anything.  When I turned back around the kittens were scampering away.  I noticed that one of the kittens had left their mittens on the rock.  I went and picked up the mittens, and called out, “Hey! You forgot your mittens!”  They must have not heard me, because they kept running.  I started to walk after them, because it wo...

Tibetan Folk Tales, collected by Albert Shelton The Golden Squash I like the moral aspects of this story.  One man is good and ends up rich, and shares his riches.  Another tries to scheme his way into wealth, and gets punished for it.  It is very straight forward. The Two Little Cats I think this story would be interesting if the Handre was just trying to be friends with them.  Or maybe the two little cats dropped something and he was trying to return it to them, but they thought that he was trying to eat them.  Or maybe the cats went into the Handre's home by accident. Chiang Mai kitties, Source:  Wikimedia Commons

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 sto...