Reading Notes: Indian Fairy Tales Part A

Characters:
- lion
- crane
- Svabhavakripana
- Bonga


Plot:
- lion begins choking on a bone and the crane approaches
- the crane offers to help but only if he doesn't enter the lion's mouth
- the crane later asks how the lion will return the favor
- the lion says he already did by not eating the crane
- a brahman has a pot of rice from begging people
- he plans what to do with the extra rice
- he plans to become rich after many activities of buying and selling
- in the end, he kicks the pot and loses all the rice as it spills out
- there is a girl who is the sister to 7 brothers
- the wives plot against her
- her water pot will not remain filled
- the water around her kept rising
- she drowns after the water reaches too high
- the girl is reincarnated as a bamboo stock
- the bamboo is made into a fiddle



A Broken Pot by John D Batten




Bibliography: The Broken Pot by Joseph Jacobs

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