Week 7 Reading Notes: Folklore of Laos, Part B

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The Legend of the Rice:
  • ancient world, superfood=rice of larger grain
  • switch to larger ones every year (granaries)
  • great haste angered widow
  • rice broke into thousands of pieces--small grain (today)
A Boy of the City Streets:
  • boy saw 3 men come to gate of town, asked where the are going
  • men said why is a boy speaking to us
  • boy said he was just asking
  • kidnapped boy and took him with them
  • men didn't have water but boy did
  • men got tired of carrying boy, sold boy for three slaves
  • buyers were from his city
The Justice of In Ta Pome:
  • three countries wanted to change stone to gold--worshipped Ta Pome
  • Ta Pome wanted each man to kill one of their children--cut up and put in jar
  • China=killed pig, Siam=kill dog, India=killed only son
  • return to Ta Pome: China=kill pigs for gold, Siam=plow earth for food, India=child resurrected--got to turn stone to gold
The Magic Well:
  • old man sick and undiagnosed
  • spirits told him to touch river's brink
  • went to prince and told him of vision
  • prince believed him--helped him get to river's bank
  • found it, drank water, and was cured
(Picture of Mekong River)


The Blind Man:
  • man and woman had daughter trying to find husband
  • blind man tried to woo daughter--made eyes look real
  • daughter loved him and married him
  • man only ate one kind of meat because he won't need to wash the dish
  • man plowed rice fields up ridges to widen the planting space
  • man couldn't find door when fire in house
  • man grabbed snake instead of eggs--wife found out but loved him anyway
Bibliography: Laos Folk-Lore by Katherine Neville Fleeson, with photographs by W.A. Briggs (1899).

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