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Reading: Jataka Tales Part B

  For this week's reading, I have chosen to read the Jataka Tales retold by Ellen C. Babbitt. I am going to write up some notes over part B today.

The Elephant Girly Face

  • there was a king who had an elephant
  • he named it girly face because it was so kind, good, and gentle
  • one night some robbers came by to the area where girly face slept
  • they spoke of how they were going to break in and kill someone
  • they said that robbers so no mercy or pity and are cruel
  • as girly face heard this he thought that this is the way that he should be acting
  • the next morning when the keeper came to feed girly face he picked him up by his trunk and killed him
  • another keeper came to help and girly face killed him as well
  • no one dared to go by girly face anymore
  • the king knew something was up
  • he found out that girly face was listening to bad men talk
  • he decided to send some good men so that he would overhear them talking and become good once again
  • after he overheard the good men talking about being gentle and not hurting anyone, girly face was gentle and good once again and forever
The Princes and the Water-Sprite

  • there was a king who had three sons
  • there was the prince of stars, the moon prince, and the sun prince
  • the third son promised to give the queen any boon she wanted
  • on his 21st bday she wanted the sun prince to take over the kingdom
  • the king refused and said the kingdom must go to the oldest son
  • the queen left but the king feared she would harm the older sons so that the sun prince could become king
  • the king ordered his two oldest sons to go live in the forest until his passing and then they would come back and reign
  • the youngest son overheard and insisted that he come with his brothers
  • the sun prince went down to the pond to bathe
  • he ran into a water sprite and it asked how what good fairies are like
  • he answered they were like the moon and sun
  • the water sprite cried out and took him to his cave
  • the brothers wondered what was taking their youngest brother so long
  • they went looking for him
  • the water sprite asked the moon prince the same question and he answered...like the sky above us
  • he dragged the moon prince into the cave as well
  • then the prince of stars went looking for both of his brothers
  • the water sprite came in the form of a woodsman
  • the eldest brother knew it was the water sprite and did not fall for his tricks
  • he said he would answer the question correctly
  • the water sprite brought back his brothers
  • they lived in the forest until their father died
  • they came back to the kingdom and ruled
Bibliography The Jataka Tales. Ellen C. Babbitt. part B

( Image of the elephant Girly-Face by Ellsworth Young)

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