Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Week 5 Reading Diary: Twenty Two Goblins


Goblins: The Three Lovers
The Brahman youths are intrigued by a beautiful girl named Coral.  She dies and the three of them profess their love in different ways.  In the end the third one is pronounced the husband as she comes back to life because he stayed with her body and endured a hard life for her after she dies. This story is told by a goblin from a dead body that the king was sent for in the introduction.

Goblins: Food, Women, Cotton
In this story, there are three brothers.  They each believe they a have a specialty in life.  The first brother thinks he has a speciality food, the second says his specialty is women and the third brother says his in cotton.  They brothers are in search of a turtle for their father when they encounter challenges to prove their specialities.

Goblins: The Four Scientific Suitors
A king named Heroic and his queen named Lotus go to the Ganges River and ask Shiva to give them children.  They have a son, Brave, and a daughter, Grace. Four scientific good looking men suitable for his daughter came to him.  They each told him their talent and the Goblin telling the story to the king ask him who they should pick.  He decides on the warrior man who still had some manhood.

The Snakes Poison
The goblin tells a story of a Brahman named Hariswami whose wife gets taken from him.  He goes on searches for her and ends up getting poisoned by a snake whose poison accidentally falls into his food.  The king tells the goblin that he believes that Hariswami was to blame for killing himself rather than anyone else.

The Generals Wife
A story about a king who was told bad things about a girl named Passion whom he was supposed to marry.  He decided not to before even meeting her and she was given to the General Force.  One day the king saw Passion and fell madly in love.  He found out that she was the one he had turned down and grew in depression.  The general heard about this and as a slave of the king offered his wife over to him.  The king did not want to let people down in his iniquity and ended up killing himself.

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