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"We now have so many stories that we can no longer keep them in our heads. We are concerned they will be lost or forgotten. How do we save them and the…
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The sparrows embark on further adventures
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The Persimmon Tree
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The Merchants and the Thieves
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The Snake and the Frightened Soul
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The Legend of Tomiris, Queen of the Massagetae
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How the Gond Gods Were Released from the Cave Where They Were Trapped for Twelve Years
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Yeo Ka?
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Nirbandh
The soot had streaked her hand, she saw. As it must have streaked the hands of countless women before her, who too had placed their diyas in that little…
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The Tale of the Bent Old Woman, Kujo Buri
“Dear me! There goes that Kujo Buri. Buri, I’m going to eat you.”
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The Sparrows Return
Just then the babblers set up a huge commotion. “They’re back, they’re back, they’re back!” they shouted all together. And sure enough, there they were…
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Whatever Happened to Kaga Mama?
“Goodbye, goodbye,” called the sparrows and off they flew.
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The Legend of the Dwarf
One day in her distress, she took an egg, wrapped it in cotton cloth, and put it carefully in a corner of her hut. Every day she went to look at the…
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Yeo Ka?
“I fear Fear itself, mother! Every night I hear it on our way back home at that hour that is the darkest before dawn."
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