Paige's Mythology and Folklore Blog

This story is now in my portfolio . How the Turtle Got It's Shell Once upon a time, in a forest filled with all of the animals, there lived a small colony of turtles. These turtles lived a happy and peaceful life, for the most part. The turtles were kind and there were few animals in the forest who did not like the turtles. But, there was one animal that the turtles did not like, the bear. The bears in the forest thought the turtles were the best snack in all of the forest, so the turtles were constantly in fear of being eaten by a bear. One day the turtles had had enough, they no longer wanted to live in fear and they were determined to whatever it took to save themselves. The leader of the turtle colony decided that he had no other option than to go and visit the forest god. "Please Forest God, I need your help, all of my family and friends are being eaten" pleaded the turtle. The Forest God was known for helping when she was asked, but every wish she granted ...

How the Dog Came to Live with Man by: Mrs. K. U. Rafy begins by talking about the past  uses imagery for the setting talks about event in the past written in a novel form introduces the story that is going to be told refers to the beginning of the story where it talked about the event discusses tradition writes from the point of view of the dog describes senses of the dog first interaction is described the dog immediately gets along with humans the dog solves his predicament by finding a product for the event mentions customs describes dogs emotions and thoughts he goes to the event with his good others did not react well to his food describes other animals emotions the dog disagrees with the other animals the dog becomes angry at all the other animals and leaves them describing his actions and emotions of anger climax happens which leads the dog to find humans reconnects with humans the man joins the side of the dog they unite together discusses the iro...