I was very excited when I saw that these were nested stories. I remember doing a storytelling over these last semester and loved it, so I am hoping to it again with this!
Introduction: Basically the king wants his sons to be intelligent and so they get a teacher to teach them the 5 books.
Numskull and the Rabbit: basically a lion is eating all the animals in the forest. The animals tell him to stay home and they will send one animal a say so he does not slaughter all of their families. The lion agrees saying that if he does not receive food everyday he will kill all of the animals. Each day the animals took turns sending one animal to the lion. On the day it was the rabbits turn, the rabbit decided to trick the lion. The rabbit tells the lion a story, saying that he was traveling with 4 other rabbits when they got stopped by another lion and that the other lion wanted to meet the original lion so the could fight to be king/master of all the other animals. The rabbit lead the lion to a well, the lion saw his own reflection in it, thought it was the other lion, jumped into the well to fight the other lion and died.
The Ungrateful Man: A Brahman helped a tiger, monkey, and a snake out of a well. They each pledged to help him back. He then helped a goldsmith out of the well. There was some trouble and the Brahman was to be killed. The snake helped him. The Brahman then told the king what happened and the goldsmith was punished while the Brahman was rewarded. It was a great story! I'm not really sure how to make it into a storytelling, but I greatly enjoyed it.
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