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A very long time ago sky was not so high like it is now, in fact people could touch it from the roof of their houses . The sky was happy and so were the people.
There lived a crazy woman in a small, old, dusty village.The old woman lived alone in a cozy mud- hut. She had nothing to do but for sweeping, dusting, rubbing her hut and her household things.
One day a big dust storm came and there was dust everywhere. Dust on the roofs, dust on trees ,dust in the fields, dust in houses,dust everywhere.
The old woman got crazier to see so much dust and she started sweeping the dust . The sweeping made the dust to flow up and it went into the eyes of sky. Tears came in the eyes of sky because of dust particles and those tears dropped on the ground.
The crazy old woman got so angry with the sky to make her place wet and she poked the sky with her broom-stick . Poor sky got hurt and cried more with pain. The cruel woman again poked the sky. No other way was left for sky except going up. It went up and up and "That is why the sky is so high."
-Indian folktale retold by Aunt Mary
Nice tale, that's why the sky is so high :)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Jahid for the kind words :)
DeleteThis is a very beautiful story, Auntie!
ReplyDeleteAnd it explains why the sky shows some bruises in its body, where sometimes clouds come to relief his pain! :)
Thank you very much Od , I loved the explanation :)
DeleteInteresting story. It's a relief for the sky to be far from humans who could cause destructions at any time! Thanks for sharing this folklore, Aunt Mary. :)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much , you are right Balqis,it is good for sky to be far from humans :)
DeleteBaby girls would be easily lulled to sleep after this story being narrated. It's just interesting
ReplyDeleteI am so happy that you liked the story, thank's a lot :)
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