Saturday, April 4, 2015

Week 12 Reading Diary A: Bengali Folktales Part 1

Bengali Folktales

There were nine stories in the first part of this unit. All of the stories in this half contain multiple parts, so they are long.

I liked the story of The Evil Eye of Sani. It had three parts. (Part 1 Part 2 Part 3) It is the story of Sani and Lakshmi. They are the goddesses of good and bad luck. This story would be too long to use for the storytelling assignment.

The next story was The Boy whom Seven Mothers Suckled. I really liked this story, and I am actually using it for my final project. It is a bit odd, but I like it! It had two parts. (Part 1 Part 2)

The next in this half was The Origin of Opium. (Part 1 Part 2 Part 3) This story was about Ganga a Rishi and a mouse. Rishi changed the mouse into many different animals, because it asked him to. Eventually the mouse was changed into a woman. She ended up drowning. People who use opium will have one quality from each of the animals that the mouse transformed into.

The last story in this unit is the story of The Ghost-Brahman. This was the shortest story of this half of the unit. It only contained one part. I was not as fond of this story.




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