Epics of HoaIndia

Notes: A king has three sons: Prince of the Stars. Moon Prince. Sun Prince. The queen went away because she was afraid of the king's decision. Therefore, the king told his son's to live in the forest before his death. Then after his death, come back and the palace would be theirs. However, the sun prince asked where they were going. After the sun prince heard what happened, the sun prince wanted to come with them as well. The three brothers then stumbled upon the the King of Fairies. A watersprite asked the sun prince a question. The two other brothers were getting worried and the Moon Prince went to the pond where the sun prince was. As the Moon Prince reaches to the pond, the watersprite asked him another question as well. The watersprite said he didn't know the answer as well so he dragged him to the cave where the Sun Prince was. The older brother, the Prince of the Stars then went to find his two brothers. Then the prince of stars stumbled upon the

Notes: There was a thrifty merchant visiting a great city to sell his goods. There was another merchant that was considered stupid, selling his merchants too. One man asked the other to go before or after and not trying to sell at the same time. So the man suggested to go first. The foolish man began to travel, and filled water-jars with water and loaded them into a large wagon to cross the desert. There was a wicked demon in the desert and said to himself if he could talk the foolish merchant emptying his water-jars, then he could make him his slave. So the demon changed himself to a noble gentleman. He got the other demons to change too. The demon started to have a conversation with the merchant. The demon suggested the merchant to empty all his water-jars because he wouldn't need it anymore. So the foolish merchant did what the demon told him to do and now traveling with no water. Therefore, that night, they ended up sleeping on the ground. The demons then came

Notes: Rabbit sleeps under a palm-tree. A monkey dropped a coconut and it fell on the rabbit's back. Rabbit thought the earth was breaking up. Therefore, the rabbit ran as fast as he could without even looking back at him. Another rabbit saw him running and ran with him too. The first rabbit told the other rabbit that the earth is breaking up. Another rabbit ran with them too after they heard what happened. In the end, there were more than a hundred rabbits running with them. A deer ran with them as well. The Fox came along. The elephant joined as well The Lion came up to the hills and roared three times. This stopped them from running cause these animals were afraid of him. The Lion asked them why they were running so fast. They told him why. One by one, the lion asked who saw the earth breaking up and it leads to the rabbit. The rabbit told the lion that he did see the earth breaking up. Then the lion suggested to go back to where the rabbit was and to see if

Notes: Quails living together in a forest. Have one leader who is wise. One man lived near the forest to catch and sell quails. The quails needed this fowler to stop and made a plan to stop him and free themselves. The man threw the net over the quails and the quails flew away with the net. The fowler tried to get his net back that was on thorns and the man went home empty-handed. As days go by, the man did his same routine and his net flew away. His wife was getting angry cause he didn't bring home any money. The man had a plan B. Quails had an argument on what to do next when the fowler gets back. Therefore, the man got the quails and took them to town and sold them for a good price. Bibliography:   The Quarrel of The Quails , by Ellen C. Babbitt. Quails lifted the net and flew away,  Link Text .

Notes: A man owns an Ox. The owner bet on his ox for silver if his Ox wasn't so strong. However, he was. So they challenged the Ox and tied it to a hundred wagons in a line to see if it can draw it. During the competition, the Ox yoked the first wagon. The owner even whipped his Ox . Therefore, the Ox stood still. The poor man paid his forfeit from the competition.. The owner told himself, crying in bed, why the Ox embarrassed him in public. The owner came our to feed his Ox. The Ox asked why he called him names and whipped him. The owner realized what he did was wrong and apologized. Therefore, the ox forgave him and said he will win the competition for him. The next morning they were ready for the competition. However, the other men were laughing at him for coming back. The owner was ready to prove them wrong. The Ox pulled all his strength for his owner due to receiving support. In the end, they won the competition and went home and lived happily ever

Once upon a time, there was girl that lived in a wonderful palace of a village called Far-Far-Away. Her name was Cinderella. She lived such a wonderful life yet became very spoiled and greedy. One night, there was a heavy storm. An old lady approaches to the front door of the palace and rings the doorbell. Cinderella answers. The old lady asked if she could come in and stay in for the night until the storm passes by and gives Cinderella a golden bowl as an exchange. Cinderella said, "Oh hell nah..." after looking so disgusted by the way the old lady looks. Soon after, there was a bright light flashing from the old lady. The old lady has transformed into a beautiful woman; as if she almost looked like Cameron Diaz. The old lady told Cinderella how spoiled and careless she was and cursed her into the ugliest women of all. She will remain ugly for the rest of her life until she does something nice that could fill her heart once again. After the cursed lady disappears, Ci

Notes: Merchant who sole brass and tinware. The other merchant was greedy. They both went out to town and yelled Tinware for sale. People came out and bought them too. There was once a family that was rich and now poor. They only thing that's considered rich that they own is a gold bowl which a grandmother's husband used to use every day. The greedy man passed their house. The old woman told the merchant that they are too poor to buy anything. The child asked the grandmother to trade the bowl. The grandmother asked the greedy merchant if she could trade the gold bowl for something for her daughter. The greedy man figured it was real gold and told them that it was worth nothing and threw it to the ground. The grandmother told the other merchant what happened. This merchant truthfully told the old lady that he was not rich enough to buy this golden bowl. The merchant gave all that he could own for the grandmother. The greedy man came back and asked for the b

Notes: Monkey lived in a great tree on a river bank. There were many crocodiles in the river and one mother told her son to catch a monkey for her one day. It's so that she could eat the monkey's heart. The Son then asked how because he does not travel on land and that the monkey's don't get in the river. The mother told him to do the best that he can. The crocodile thought of a brilliant idea to have the monkey get across the river to get the fruit on the other side of the island. The crocodile was considered stupid. The crocodile asked the monkey to come down and get the fruit with him. The monkey asked how because he can't swim. The crocodile told the monkey that he'll help and let him get on his back. The monkey was greedy and then jumped on the crocodile's back and off they went. The monkey told the crocodile that it was a fine ride! Then the crocodile told the monkey if he liked going under water. The monkey didn't and held onto t

For this story laboratory assignment, I have decided to do a little bit of a more research for my storybook this week. While searching for new original stories of Ganesha, there were a lot of great ones that I couldn't decide to chose for my last story for my online storybook. However, there was one Ganesha story that grabbed my attention. It was  Ganesha and Kubera . By keeping it simple, this story is about Ganesha eating dinner at Kubera's house! This story seemed interesting, fun to read to learn more about it. Therefore, I might consider using this story for my storybook! Ganesha eating modaks,  Link Text .

Notes: King had an elephant named, Girly-face. It's because he was gentle, good, and looked so kind. One night, robbers came into the courtyard where the elephant slept. The robbers woke Girly-face. The robbers talked and said to kill anyone in the house if they're awake. They never have a moment for being good. Just bad. Therefore, the Girly-face heard everything and took their advice and hurt the robbers instead without feeling sorry. The next morning, the keeper came in to feed the elephant, but the elephant picked him up by the trunk and threw the keeper to the ground killing him. Another keeper came in to see what is going on and killed him too. For days, the Girly-face was so ugly that no one would want to go near it. But they left food for him but still would not go near it. The king heard what happened and sent his wise men to fix the problem. The wise man knew the elephant for a very long time. The wise man asked if there were any bad men that th

Notes: A merchant packed goods in many carts in the desert. The sun shone down and made the fine sand hot as a stove. As the moon came about, the sand was cool enough for the merchant to travel on foot.  The merchant made rice with a jar of water and firewood. The merchant had a friend which was a pilot.  As the sun approaches, they stopped and camped. They unyoked the oxen and fed them. They built fires and cook the rice too. The men laid down and rest until the sunset. In the early evening, they cooked and built a fire again.  After supper, they yoked the oxen and as soon the sand was cool enough, they started if their journey across the desert. The merchant told his friend that one day they will reach the city. The pilot thinks that the oxen must have turned about while he slept and that they were in the same place as of yesterday. They unyoked the oxen, yet there were no water for them to drink. they must have thrown away the water that was left the night befo

Once upon a time there was a boy, named James, attending his first college at the University of California, Los Angeles. James was originally from Oklahoma, but decided to go out of state and to explore the world while attending college. It was difficult for him to decide whether to stay in Oklahoma to be close with his family, or to go out of state and attend UCLA to explore what is best for himself. As James went through his days in college, he bumped into someone special along the way. One night as James was heading home from the coffee shop, he met a girl that was standing outside of the bars, trying to holler a taxi for a ride back home. "Excuse me, Taxi!" said the girl. "It's hard to get the taxi's attention nowadays huh?" said James as he approaches the girl. "Very funny. Taxi!" said the girl. "Oh, no! I wasn't trying to be sarcastic. I was just giving the facts. Have you tried calling someone?" asked James. "I