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The Three Hunters Tibetan Folk Tales by A.L. Shelton with illustrations by Mildred Bryant (1925). This story is a little odd. The tale goes there was once three brothers who were all hunters. Their three wives, and one sister lived with them. One day they brought home a deer and gave the sister the leg. She cracked up the leg and made amazing bone marrow. The two older wives were upset and planned to kill her. So the next time their husbands left they killed her, though the youngest wife did not partake. On the way home the men saw a bird tweeting out the same tune. They began to think it was trying to tell them something. They asked if it was their sister and it replied yes. They then knew their sister was dead, but her sole lived in this bird. They went home and found the youngest wife crying, though she would not say what happened. They confessed to her that they knew all that happened and later killed the two older wives.  Photo provided by Wikipedia Commons  https://commo...

The Tiger and the Frog Tibetan Folk Tales by A.L. Shelton with illustrations by Mildred Bryant (1925). This was a very funny story to read. The tale goes that there was once a frog and tiger who crossed paths. The frog was scared but did not back down. He claimed he was the King of Frogs and was stronger than the tiger. They competed in two events to see who was better. The first they jumped across the river, the frog won. Secondly they threw up. The tiger coughed up water and the frog coughed up tiger hair. He claimed he had eaten a tiger yesterday. So the tiger ventured on his way eventually running into a fox. The fox laughed at him. Saying he could kill the frog in one quick step. So they tied their tales together to go get the frog. As the fox approached he stated, "You're a great fox. You haven't paid your toll to the king to-day nor brought any meat either. Is that a dog you've got tied to your tail and are you bringing him for my dinner?" This sacred the t...