MLLL-3043 Myth and Folklore Blog

I have not read or written microfictions before. I think it's interesting because sometimes I lose interest in the things I read. The length is so short that it's hard to not pay attention unless I am just really out of it. K particularly liked the two sentence horrors. I love horror stories and thriller movies. The amount of queasiness I felt reading some of these was fun.  ( Monster House )

This story should be really be named "The Fox and Her Husband". The wife did all the heavy lifting in getting away from the tiger. She knew she had to be respectful to con the tiger. I mean they even got an escort to their house because the tiger thought he had tricked them, but no one can trick a fox. The tiger got so mad that "Then he saw how he had been fooled and flew into a terrible rage and tried to squeeze his way into the hole, but it was much too small and at last he had to go away baffled, and so the foxes were saved by Mrs. Fox’s wit.". That was all due to Mrs. Fox and the husband did nothing.  ( Red Fox ) Bibliography: A Fox and His Wife, by Cecil Henry Bompas (1909), link: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11938/11938-h/11938-h.htm#t116

Particularly this part of the story shocked me,  "At this, everyone looked up at the sky; then she took some sand which she had in the fold of her cloth and threw it into the air, and it fell into their eyes and blinded them. While they were rubbing the sand out of their eyes, the girl leapt on to the pyre and was burned along with the monkey and died a sati. Her father and brothers were very angry at this and said that the girl must have had a monkey’s soul, and so she was fascinated by him — and so saying, they bathed and went home." This story was anything but dull. To be honest I don't know the point of this story because what was the point of the girl killing herself. It kind of reminded me of Romeo and Juliet though. There aree two star-crossed lovers that can't be together because they are from different worlds.  ( Hanuman Langur Monkey ) Bibliography: The Monkey and the Girl by Cecil Henry Bompas (1909), link:http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/06/myth-folkl