Paige's Mythology and Folklore Blog

How the Wolf Killed the Elephant Once upon a time, in a jungle long ago there lived many animals that all got along peacefully, for the most part. The Elephant believed it was the most amazing animal to ever exist and the elephants required that everyday every animal had to bring them something to pay their respects, they most often were brought food. One day, the wolf was out basking in the sun near the lake and he was so content with himself that he decided he did not need to go and give the elephants an offering. The wolf continued to lie there until all the sudden he felt a large shadow come over him. When he looked up he saw the king elephant standing over him. "Do you think you are better than us?" asked the elephant. "No sir, I do not," replied the wolf. The wolf knew he had to come up with a story to explain why he did not bring an offering today. "You better have a good explanation or you will be dead, wolf!" "I was sitting here by th...

How the Rabbit Killed the Lion By: A. L. Shelton begins by giving the setting sets the time of the story talks about the differences during that time inroduces character introduces importance of one character uses dialogue to express emotions the lion is angry rabbit begins to trick the lion rabbit tricks the lion into his own death dialogue describes the characters personalities trickery led to the defeat of one of the character uses imagery to describe the setting dialogue between both characters  ends with one character dying Lion looking into the stream

The Donkey and the Rock By: A. L. Shelton begins by giving the setting introduces the land of the story introduces main character gives background information reads as a novel describes from each point of view talks about the problem the story is set to resolve introduces the donkey describes emotions from all characters all characters come together provides information on all people solution is put into place details about solution guilty party is punished the king calls upon the people  the judge uses trickery teaches the people a lesson man who was in the problem is now out of it the judge solved the entire problem donkey and the rock