Category: Myanmar (former Burma)

May 17, 2019

A Fable (Told on the Pagoda TALES OF BURMAH, 1895) by Mimosa

TWO dogs walked in the jungle together. The day was intensely hot, the rays of the sun, hardly tempered with any shade, fell through the towering bamboos and palm-trees down on their tired heads....

May 17, 2019

THE WOMAN, THE MAN AND THE NĀT (Told on the Pagoda TALES OF BURMAH, 1895) by Mimosa

IN every large tree there lives a Nāt, and it is a custom very strictly adhered to that before any tree can be touched the permission of the spirit must be asked and obtained....

February 5, 2019

Best Folk tales about the “The Hare” – a cunning and deceitful character

The hare in various traditions Easter bunny The Easter Bunny has a long and deeply rooted in pagan European traditions. The Germanic goddess Eostre was the goddess of spring and fertility. The goddess animal...

September 13, 2017

HOW THE KING OF PAGAN CAUGHT THE THIEF (SHAN FOLK LORE STORIES, 1902) BY WILLIAM C. GRIGGS

MANY, many years ago there lived near the old city of Pagan a famous robber chief who was so fierce and cruel that he made all men fear his name. He stole and killed and burned...

September 12, 2017

HOW THE WORLD WAS CREATED (SHAN FOLK LORE STORIES, 1902) BY WILLIAM C. GRIGGS

IN the beginning of the world, many, many cycles ago, so long ago, in fact, that no man knows how long it was, there were no trees, no hills, no land, nothing but water. The wind...

September 11, 2017

THE SPARROW’S WONDERFUL BROOD (SHAN FOLK LORE STORIES, 1902) BY WILLIAM C. GRIGGS

MANY, many years ago, at the beginning of the world, a little sparrow built her nest on the top of a tall tree that grew near the edge of a lake. In it she laid five...