Week 6 Reading Diary (Extra): Folktales of Bengal

 Folktales of Bengal

• The Evil Eye of Sani
• gods turning to humans for advice...they definitely don't have the same concept of deities as we do!
• love the loyalty between Sribatsa and Chintamani
• Chintamani's abduction, Sribatsa's search 
• a big pile of brick-like gold poop...cool...
• Lakshmi is mean - rather than making Chintamani ugly to save her, SHE SHOULD HAVE JUST SAVED HER
• Communicated through signs and gestures, these folks really are smart!
• Possibly a cursed garden which Sribatsa fixed with his presence?
• The Boy Whom Seven Mothers Suckled
•  WHAT?! Infanticide and cannibalism...this is definitely not your average folktale (although the original folktales of Grimm fairytale are usually pretty gruesome).
• This little boy is awesome. 
• Even if some rakshasis are evil, they have some pretty cool magic 

Poppies! (Source)

•  The Origin of Opium  
•  Oh boy, I don't trust this mouse. He's like the mouse in that book "If you give a mouse a cookie..." - always wants more more more! 
• This mouse is crazy! First he ridicules women and then wants to be one?
• I did not see the end of that coming! What an interesting story of how opium was created. Do people really have those characteristics when they smoke it?

•  The Ghost Brahman
•  Cowboys are so clever. Classic.