MLLL-3043 Myth and Folklore Blog

This story had a scholar who didn't like to live with anyone. He witnessed a tiny little kingdom which in my head represented buggs because they were only a couple of inches if that tall. When they all disappeared, they left a little hunting dog. I think the scholar had become fond of the dog, but the dog died. I was so sad when the dog died. I love dogs. However, the dog died protecting the scholar while he slept which makes me even sadder.  ( Rover ) Bibliography: The Chinese Fairy Book , ed. by R. Wilhelm and translated by Frederick H. Martens (1921).

Unlike many stories in this class, this story started with the death of the mom and brother. The two sisters had to fend off against their family's murderer, the panther. When they let the panther come in, they knew it wasn't their mother. They played along with it though so they could trick him. After they hoaxed him to leave, they cried on their porch until venders started hempling them.  "In the evening the panther came home. He sat down in the armchair in the room. Then the needles in the cushion stuck into him. So he ran into the kitchen to light the fire and see what had jabbed him so, and then it was that the scorpion hooked his sting into his hand. And when at last the fire was burning, the egg burst and spurted into one of his eyes, which was blinded. So he ran out into the yard and dipped his hand into the water-barrel, in order to cool it, and then the turtle bit it off. And when in his pain he ran out through the door into the street, the wooden clubs fell on h...