Extra Reading Diary

Why The Red Dragon is The Emblem of Wales

• King Vortigern was the king of wales and was advised by his wise men to and build a fortified city to defend himself from the Saxons
• So in those time they would kill a person and use their blood in the concrete 
• So he sent out for a fatherless child to kill
• So he found the child and then ordered to kill him and as the child stood before him he asked the king to speak with his wisemen
• So he questioned the wise men and every time the wise men did not know the answer
• So as the boy asked questions one of the questions was what a red serpent and white serpent represented as they fought inside a tent.
• Eventually the red serpent although seemed weak regained its strength and beat out the white snake
• The white snake represented a white dragon and Saxons and the red represented a red dragon and wales.
• I really enjoyed this story because it gives me some background on what the meaning behind the red dragon is

The Red Dragon

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Reading Diary B:

Robin Hood and The Valiant Knight 

• In this story the king send a knight and hundred man to kill robing hood the out law
• So they end up confronting robin hood and his men 
• Robin hood then flees and find a monk who bleeds him and dies
• After that Robins hood's men all flea to different parts of Europe of the fear that they would be killed as well
• The story tell us that there will never be another outlaw like Robin Hood again.

Robin Hood's Death

• This story tells us the last moments Robin hood had
• I still keep wondering what the the whole bleeding thing was about in that time?
• Is it just when someone chooses to die then they are bled to death?
• It is a very absurd concept to me
• Robin hood's last wishes were to be buried alongside with his bow for it was one of the things he most valued

Robin Hood's Grave

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Reading Diary A: Robin Hood

Progress To Nottingham

• In this story robin hood i challenged by foresters and told him he could not be an archer for the king
• Robin hood told them he could hit twenty men and make them die
• So the foresters accepted the challenge and then robing hood killed them all
• Th people of the city came to kill robin hood but he got away.

The Ranger

• In this story robin hood challenges a forester for the right to hunt
• They fight for three long hours and eventually robin hood falls
• However the forester does not kill him but grants him a gift for fighting
• Then they both hunt game in the forest
• I really enjoy seeing stories where robin hood is fighting because it allows me to think of him as a guy who just starts fights everywhere.

Robin Hood

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Reading Diary B: British Fairy Tales

Henny-Penny

• Henny-Penny is a fairy tale that is very similar to others I have read where one character plans to go tell the king something
• The story goes that henny-penny is going to tell the king the sky is falling and so as she goes other character tag along
• It gets to the point where the fox tags along and tell them that he knows how to get there and takes them to his cave
• In his cave he kills all of them except henny-penny and henny-penny gets away.

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Johnny-Cake

• This story is about a cake who outruns the people who baked him and also other people on the way of his run
• Johnny cake even outruns a bear and wolf but then he gets to the fox
• Like I have seen many times before the fox character is usually very smart
• So the fox acts like he can hear Johnny cake making him come closer and in conclusion just eats him up.
• I really liked this story and think I might write my storytelling based on this story right here

Reading Diary A: British Fairy Tales

The Three Little Pigs

• Reading this story was interesting because it is one of my favorite stories of all time
• It goes along from the same lines as the story I would hear about when I was young
• The big difference in this story is that the third pig is able to get away from the wolf and eventually kill him
• After killing the wolf the pig eats him for supper which is a very big difference from the story i would always hear.

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The Master and His Pupil

• This story reminds me of a curious cat because the student was so curious to do what his master would do
• In return the student summons a demon that terrorizes him
• The demon is then filling everything up with water and the student is left to drown
• On the masters journey he remembered he did not lock the book and returned to cast the demon away and save the pupil

Extra Reading Diary: Italian Popular Tales

The Language of Animals

• The story is about father and son 
• The son goes to school and when he comes back home his father throws him a big party 
• At the party he is asked what he has learned
• He responds that he has learned the languages of birds, dogs and frogs. his father is so ashamed that he sends his servants to kill him and bring him his heart
• The servants kill a dog and the son gets away and helps the a kings treasurer by telling him that a bunch of dogs followed him because multiple assassins were going to attack at night
• He then helps the kings daughter by letting them know she had tossed a cross in the fountain and thats why the frogs never stopped croaking
• In the end he becomes pope and invites his father, the treasurer and the king
• He then forgives his father and lived with him for the rest of his life

An Incident in Rome

• A carter was sent down a dark deep hole to see who lived there
• As he went down he saw a man with ink and pen and paper
• The carter asked the mysterious man who he was and the the man told him turn around and open your shirt. 
• He wrote who he was on the carter shirt and told him to go to the pope and have only the pope read who he was
• So he went to the pope and it read, I am PILATES 
• And so this was the story of PILATE a man neither condemned nor damned but stuck in a cave reading the sentenced he had pronounced Jesus Christ.

The Cock That Wished To Become Pope

• There was a cock that wanted to become pope so he went on journey and on the course recruited a hen, a cat and a weasel.
• There after they got to a witches house and stayed there. 
• The witch came home and kicked them all out
• Then it was just the cock and the hen on the way to rome 
• Once they got there the cock met with the sexton and the sexton caught both the cock and hen and twisted their necks ate the cock and the hen THE END.

Italy

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Reading Diary B: Native American Hero Tales

Lodge Boy and Thrown Away

• Two boys were split at birth one was thrown in the curtain of tipi and the other thrown in a spring
• The father is the able to get them back and they live together
• The boys go and wake their mother up had been killed 
• Then they both go and kill an alligator and disobeying their father 
• The boy seem to be really good at getting away with things every time they are told not to do something

Lodge Boy and Thrown Away

• The Father told the boys not to go to the tipi over the hill because there are a lot of snakes
• The boy went to the tipi and brought stones to sit on in the tipi
• The snakes tried to enter their rectum and the boys killed all the snakes but one and with that one they rubbed its head against a cliff and that is why snakes have flat heads
• The boys continued killing bad things and lived doing that for the rest of their lives

Crow Horsemen 

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Week 10 Reading Diary A: Native American Hero Tales

The Jealous Uncle 

• The Unnatural Uncle would kill his nephews after a few years 
• He had killed two of them already
• A third had been born and they concealed him and told the uncle that he was a girl
• The boy grew up dressed as a girl and acting like a girl
• One day he showed that he was really a boy and the uncle found out
• Now more then ever the uncle wanted to kill the boy

Bluejay and his Companions

• The thing that really caught my attention in this story was that animals would go and hunt animals
• How is it that Bluejay and his companions an otter and other hunt seals?
• I like how in this story bluejay believed the grouse didnt deserve the fat of the seal
• In return the grouse builds a canoe and they are dragged out to the sea by a seal they harpoon
• Bluejay in his companions then made it to a strange place were he was challanged to climb against squirrel
• Bluejay won the race and squirrel had lost it

Yupik mother and son

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Extra Reading Diary: American Indian Fairy Tales

Iagoo, The Story Teller

• This Story talk about a story teller named Iagoo
• There was nobody as wise and knowing as Iagoo 
• It tells the story how winter was the time for story telling and the children would gather around Iagoo
• This story seems to be the introduction to the storyteller of the fairy tells that are to come.

Shin-Ge-Bis Fools the North Wind

• This Story talks about two kings the North wind and the South wind
• The North wind is portrayed as the bad king and the south as the good 
• The north wind makes everything cold while the south makes everything summer
• The story goes on and tells about how fisherman in the north are scared off by the north wind and only one man decides to stay and fool the north wid

Iagoo storytelling to the children

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Reading Diary B: Apache Tales

The Supernatural Person in the Lake

• The story talks of a boy who received a gift of being a medicine man from his mother 
• They were very hungry so the the mother asked him if he had anything to eat and he and told her that the next day they would have a lot to eat
• What he said came true until the mother told him to stop and the food they were getting stopping coming
• His mother asked for the gift back and he told her he had given it to the supernatural one 
• He then went back to his own country and the people followed him and tried to track him down and did not find him
• Two years later the people went out to war and he appeared with a buffalo and told them that the enemy was close and was not aware. 
• He then told them to get the black horse with no white spots and to bring it back to him
• The people won the war and took the horse and once they were close the lake the horse just ran of in that direction.

The Man who traveled with the Buffalo 

• At the start of this story a group of men are at war and they all die but one
• The one follows the buffalo and in the in end he gets arrows shoots them all
• In the rivers turned into the mans chiefs
• These sort of story seem to be all over the place and very random
• This probably explains the names that chiefs get in native american culture

Rio Grande

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Ready Diary A: Apache Tales

The First War

• The people were separated by the raven and there were two chiefs to the east 
• One of the chief made a feast and invited all and the other chief refused to attend
• The chief that did not attend ended up wounding the other chief with an arrow and became the grandfather of the wounded chief
• This chief then went to war with the other four enemy chiefs. The chief had five horses killed under him before he got on the sixth horse
• By then all his men were gone and the enemy chief put on the ground and killed him
• News got back to the other chief and he mourned that his grandfather was killed

The Culture of Heroes and Owl

• I have to say this was a very confusing story because of the randomness found in it
• The boys start out by having a game created for them to and owl trying to cook them while they told stories
• They did not die because of the magic they were using even though the owl tried multiple times to kill them
• In the end the owl lets them go back to their father
• In conclusion this was a very confusing and interesting story

(Apache Chief)

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Reading Diary B: Nigerian Folktales

The Story of the Lightening  and the Thunder

• The story is about a mother sheep (thunder) and her son ram (lightening).
• The story goes that lightening would get mad and go burn houses and knock down trees and sometimes even kill people
• Lightening's mother thunder would always call out to lightning to make him stop 
• One day the people got tired of the destruction and went to the king to make it stop
• The king cast them out to another bush and made them live in the sky where they now remain
• Sometimes Lighting still causes damage and you can still hear its mother thunder calling.

The Cock who caused a fight

• This story is about two brothers with one of them owning a pet cock
• Soon after a poor local who pretended to be their friend
• The poor local eventually started telling lies to each brother about what was happening with the cock which eventually started a war
• At the end of the war it was realized that poor local and the cock had started so both were killed

Lightening 

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Reading Diary A: Nigerian Folk Stories

The Pretty Stranger who killed the King

• There was the Strong king of Calabar, Nigeria that had a lot of enemies and was very powerful
• Then there was the enemy town Itu who had a witch who can make her self appear as anything she wished
• She transformed into a beautiful young women who the whole town of old town Calabar admired
• The King of Old town fell in love with her and wanted to marry her
• The witch cooked the king a meal that put him to sleep then cut his head off killing the king
• She got away and nobody thought of her as the killer and eventually Itu was able to attack Old Town

Why the Bat Flies by night

• A bush Rat and a bat were friend and always ate together
• The rat asked why the soup the bat made was so good
• The bat told him that he boils himself in his soup because his flesh is sweet
• So the rat went home and tried this out and died in the pot of boiling water
• The wife of the rat was furious and told the king and after that their was a search for the bat
• The Bat then changed his habits and hid in a bush and would only come out at night and never by day after that

Calabar, Nigeria circa 1900

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Extra Reading Diary: Japanese Fairy Tales

The Two Frogs

• There were two frogs one from Kioto and the other from Osaka
• There both interested in venturing out to see their native country so one wanted to go to Kioto and the other to Osaka. 
• On their travels they met each other half way there on top of a mountain so they decided to stand on their hind legs holding each other up to see their destination
• They were both foolish because their eyes were on the backs of their head so they looked at the town were they came from and therefor believed the destination they were going to was exactly the same as their origin.

The Stonecutter

•  The Stone cutter was a about a stone cutter who had heard of a spirit that grants riches and wishes to many men
• He was satisfied until one day he wished to be rich
• The spirit heard him and as he went along with the wish he continued to wish to be other things
• In the end he wished to be simple man who cut stones for a living
• As he went through from being a prince to a the sun he was now satisfied with his life and never wished for anything else

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Reading Diary B: Folklore of Laos

The Wizard and the Beggar

• The story is about a man who was very poor and claimed that if someone ever fed him what he desired he would be forever grateful and would never forget.
• He cam upon a wizard and the wizard told him that people these days are careless and ungrateful
• So the poor man went on and the a dog told him that his master had forgotten his good services 
• The poor man then went on an a buffalo and the buffalo told him that his master as well had forgotten of his services and was left to die
• The Wizard then gave the poor man a magic jewel that granted all his desires and kept a second jewel that allowed you to fly for himself
• The poor man with time became ungrateful and greedy and then went to kill the wizard ofr the second jewel and the wizard got away with both jewels

(Water Buffalo)

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The Legend of the Rice 

• The story tells that rice used to be really big 
• The old woman decided that the granaries needed to be big so she torn down the ones that were she had
• While the work was being done the rice was ripe and it rolled to where the work was being done
• The old woman angered hit the rice and said "why didn't you stay in the fields until you were needed" and the rice broke into thousand of pieces
• From then on out rice was to be picked when needed and much smaller then it used to be.

One Woman

• The woman promised to marry seven suitors at the same time
• They all found out at once of her plans and decided to kill her
• She then got them to sell themselves to a captain and got silver for them
• They escaped and she decided to invite them for a last supper and poisoned them
• She then got them all buried for free 

Reading Diary A: Folklore of Laos

A Child of The Woods

• The Woman at young age grew hatred towards her own people so she fled her village.
• She then went to the woods unafraid of the beasts and danger
• There a tiger protected her at night and she was as if at home living in the woods
• Then after a while she had cooled off and went back to her people
• She told them of the wonders and the people were in wonder and gave her gifts and riches

The Enchanted Mountain 

• The enchanted mountain has fruits bigger and better looking then any other man grown fruit
• The water there when drank fills you with life
• There hunters can not kill any animals because there arrows instead of piercing fall harmlessly to the ground.
• The spirits protect the lives of all the living there
• Man can not believe unless he sees with his eyes and tastes with his tongue.
• Only children believe of this place

The Spirit Guarded Cave

• A people of great riches were endangered because of their wealth
• So they left their riches in cave guarded by spirits
• Most of the people died off and were unable to retrieve their riches
• Many people across the world heard of these riches and tried to retrieve them but had failed because of the spirits
• Not even the white man was bale to get to the riches so the treasury will forever remain there

(A Forest)

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Extra Reading Diary: Sinbad

First Voyage

• Sinbad was on a voyage and stopped at what seemed to be an island
• The island turned out to be the back of the whale and he was left for dead at sea
• he then drifted to an island and survived the sea and also found men who fed him
• There they told him he was lucky because they were going back to their king the next day.

First Voyage cont.

• Sinbad is received graciously by the king and wa helped out there
• The vessel he had been on before the whale plunging into the sea was there on the island
• He saw his packages and asked the captain who they belonged to
• There after the it took the captain a cool minute to beleievd that sinbad was sinbad until the other sailors saw him
• He then set sail on the same ship to see his family and forget what he had lived through

(The whale diving down into the sea)

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Reading Diary B: Arabian Nights

Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp 1

• This was probably my favorite because it is the start of the story of aladdin and how the story really went in comparison other versions that i have heard
• The tragedy of Aladdin's father made the situation worse for aladdin
• It was not surprising to see that the uncle was really not his uncle
• I like how in this story aladdin is stuck in the cave and he accidentally summons the genie to save him from the cave.

Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp 2

• Aladdins mother wanted him to get rid of the lamp because she thought it was bad
• Aladding ended up falling in love with the princess
• In the end aladdin gets the princess 
• This story goes along the lines of the stories i have heard

(Picture of Aladdin and the Genie)

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Reading Diary A: Arabian Nights

Scheherazade

• In it is interesting to me that because one wife did the sultan wrong that the rest of the women he married had to pay the cost
• it was so ironic that the daughter of the executioner begged him for the same fate as all those other women
• She ended up marrying the sultan knowing that she was going to die
• In the end of this story she foreshadows that she will end the horrible reign 

The Story of the Merchant and the Genius 

• In this story the merchant is given a year to live and then he has to go back to the genius to die
• As the story is told Scheherazade is able to live another day begging the sultan to let her live to continue telling the story.
• This is very interesting because the story she is telling goes along with the story she is living with the sultan who is about to kill her but yet lets her live another day.
• I liked this because it was wise and witty of her to do.
  
• (Picture of Merchant and Genius)
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Extra Reading Diary: Persian Tales

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The Wolf and the Goat

• In this story the wolf steals the goats children by over hearing the warning the goat gave to its children.
• Then gets to its house with its missing children and goes to the wolfs house to fight.
• The story is very different because in this story the wolf ends up dying by the goat making the goat the stronger of the two.

The City of Nothing in The World

• The story is very random because its starts of with eggs into talking about actual chickens.
• The story is very interesting because the author goes from talking about selling the eggs to buying food and eating it.

(Picture of a goat and its child)

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