NEH INSTITUTE 2011

Diana D'Émeraude
River Place Elementary
Enacting Himalayan Myths, Tales, and Legends

Home

Introduction

Ten Ethical Principles

Resources

About the Author

Contact

MAKING CONNECTIOINS

While reading the stories, myths, and tales, I noticed similarities between some of them and the ones I had grown up with.

These connecting stories could be used:

as a topic of comparison, possibly making a Venn Diagram.
a lead to a written assignment giving the similarities and differences.
finding more tales of this region that relate to Aesop's Fables and/or other tales.
performed in story pairs.

Stories to Compare
Beauty and the Beast	The Power of Fate	p.17 S
Hansel and Gretel	The Old Witch Who Lived in a Forest	p. 22 S
Jack, the Giant Killer	The Story of Panch Mar Khan	p. 38 S
Aesop's Fables: The Milkmaid*	Sheik Chilli	p. 46 S
The Taming of the Shrew (often dropped opening)	Abul Hussain	p. 109 S
Chicken Little	The End of the World, The Panicked Rabbit	p. 127 T, p.27 B
Chicken Little	The Day the Earth Broke into Two	p. 17 F
The Goose that layed the Golden Egg	The Golden Goose	p. 96 BB, p. 133 T
Aesop's Fables: Bird in the Hand, etc.*	The Lost Gram	p. 29 F
Aesop's Fables: The Ant and the Grasshopper	The Naughty Little Rabbit	p. 74 BB
Cinderella**	A Chinese Cinderella, Dhon Cholecha	p. 9 C, p. 99

In some stories the relationship may appear later so the given page number might not be at the beginning of the story.

S = "SIMLA VILLAGE TALES, FOLKTALES FROM THE HIMALAYAS" by Alice Elizabeth Dracott (2003 Edition)

B = "Buddhist Animal Wisdom Stories" retold by Mark W. McGinnis

BB = "Buddha at Bedtime" by Dharmachari Nagaraja

T = "Twenty Jataka Tales retold by Noor Inayat Khan

F = " Further Tales from the Jatakas"

C = "Favorite Children's Stories from China & Tibet" by Lotta Carswell Hume

K = "Tales of Kathmandu" by Karna Sakya & Linda Griffith

**It is thought that this story originated in Asia and changed as it headed West to Europe.

*One online Aesop's Fables Site

Jataka Tales Site

This site was created by Diana D'Émeraude at the NEH Summer Institute Literatures, Religions, and Arts of the Himalayan Region,held at the College of the Holy Cross, Summer 2011.