I bought a book of Korean folktales yesterday, and so far am seeing a similar trend of tales. However I'm just in the animal tales, so maybe I'll notice something different later. I wanted to share an excerpt from one of the tales I've read so far, about an unconventional, by Western standards, way of escaping a bear.
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[A burglar who mistakenly had ridden on the back of a tiger was hiding in a tree. A tiger was telling this story to a bear, and the bear said it was a good idea to go eat him.]
With that, the bear proceeded ahead and the tiger timidly followed.
Meanwhile, the burglar was watching all this and hid himself inside a hole in the tree.
The bear climbed up the tree to the hole and looked inside, but he could not reach the burglar. So he sat on the hole, hoping to smother the burglar.
Finally, the gasping man could not stand it no longer. Looking up, he saw the private parts of the bear dangling above him, so he untied his belt and cinched the bear's testicles tightly.
The bear roared in unbearable pain and fell over dead.
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It wasn't something I expected to read, anyways. It makes sense though that the pain was un
bearable. Hyuck hyuck.
Make a festival where you can get all muddy! What a wonderful idea! I think there's a number of us out there who really haven't graduated from the sandbox, and an opportunity to play like in the good ole days of kinder-youth will be taken in force.
At first I wasn't sure how I was going to get down there,
