The Fisherman and His Wife Once upon a time there was a poor old fisherman who lived with his wife in a little hut on the edge of a cliff overlooking the sea. One day, the fisherman paddled his tiny boat far out into the water to try and catch some fish. He sat in his boat all day without catching a single fish. As he was about to turn around and head home, he felt a tug on his fishing line. He reeled in his line and –plop- a fish dropped into his boat. "Hey, what’s the big idea?" said the fish. "Holy Mackerel!" the fisherman shouted in surprise, having never seen a talking fish before. "Actually, I’m a magic trout," replied the fish. "Would you please let me go?" Although the fisherman was hungry and hadn’t caught anything else that day, he took pity on the little fish flopping around next to him. He picked the fish up by the tail, swung it around over his head, and tossed it over board. "Thank you!" wailed the fish as it flew through the air and landed with a splash back in the water. That night, the fisherman returned to his little hut and told his wife about what had happened. He expected her to be happy and congratulate him for being a hero, but when he finished the story she only looked mad. "You caught a magic trout?" asked his wife. "Yes." replied the fisherman. "And you let him go, just like that?" "It seemed like the right thing to do." he answered. "But if that fish was magic, you could have asked it for a favor in return for letting it go," she explained. "What could we possibly need? We have each other and we have a roof over our heads. Isn’t that enough?" "Maybe that’s enough for you," she snapped, "but I’m tired of living in this little hut on the sea cliff! Go back and ask the fish if he can give us a nice brick cottage instead." The fisherman didn’t like the idea of going back and asking the fish for a favor, but he did love his wife, so the next day he paddled his tiny boat far out into the water and called out, "Little fish! I did you a favor by letting you go, will you do a favor for me?" The fish swam up to his boat. "What do you need?" asked the fish. "My wife is tired of our little hut on the sea cliff. She wants a nice brick cottage instead." said the fisherman. "Then when you return home, you will have a cottage." said the fish, and swam away. And sure enough, when the fisherman got home he saw that where his little hut once stood there was now a nice brick cottage. The fisherman ran up and hugged his wife and they stood outside and admired it. "Are you happy now?" he asked. "Yes," she replied. And she was… for a while. But after a week, she began to think that their nice brick cottage was a bit too small. She could do better. "We need a castle," she told her husband. "Go back to the fish and ask him for one." "Why do we need it? We have each other and we have a roof over our heads. Isn’t that enough?" "Maybe that’s enough for you," she snapped, "but I’m tired of not living in a castle! Go back to the fish and tell him to magic us one up, pronto!" The fisherman began to worry he was asking the fish for too much, but he did love his wife, so the next day he paddled his tiny boat far out into the water and called out, "Little fish! I did you a favor by letting you go, will you do yet another favor for me?" The fish swam up to his little boat. "What do you need now?" asked the fish. "My wife has had to endure not living in a castle for too long. She is tired of our big house on the sea cliff. She wants a gigantic stone castle instead." said the fisherman. "Then when you return home, you will have a gigantic stone castle." said the fish and swam away. And sure enough, when the fisherman got home he saw that where the nice brick cottage stood there was now a stone castle so huge it nearly touched the sky. The fisherman ran up and hugged his wife again as they stood outside and admired it. But before he could ask is she was happy, they began to feel the ground grumble. The gigantic castle was so heavy that it caused the cliff overlooking the sea to collapse, and it fell down into the sea. The wife fell into a deep despair. "We have nothing now! Nothing! I can’t go back to that after having tasted the good life." "When will you learn that all we need is each other and a simple roof over our heads?" the fisherman asked, picking up the scattered remains of the hut that they had once called home. With a little hard work and determination, the fisherman and his wife were able to set it up again, good as new. Returning to their modest little hut at the edge of the cliff, they lived happily for the rest of their lives.

Once a poor fanner had a daughter named Little Pea. After his wife died, the farmer married again. His new wife had a daughter. Stout Nut. Unfortunately, the new wife was very cruel to Little Pea. Little Pea had to do chores all day. This made Little Pea’s father very upset. He soon died of a broken heart.

Summer came and went. In the fall, the village held its harvest festival. That year, everyone was excited as the prince wanted to choose his wife from the village. Stout Nut’s mother made new clothes for her, but poor Little Pea had none.

However, before the festival started, a fairy appeared and magically changed Little Pea’s rags into beautiful clothes.

As Little Pea ran to the festival, she dropped one of her shoes and lost it.

When the prince found the shoe, he decided to marry the gữl who owned

it. Of course the shoe fitted Little Pea. and the prince immediately fell in love with her.

Once upon a time, there were two brothers who died early. When my brother married, he did not want to live with me again, so decided to divide the fortune. The greedy family occupied the house, the garden, the cows and buffalos of the parents, leaving only a small hut and a garden, including a sweet potato. The children do not complain, day care for the trees and plowing rent, hoe feeding.

In that year, the tree in the garden of his sister suddenly strange results, branches are all fruit, sweet fruit, yellow hair. He looked at the tree that heart warmly embrace the idea of ​​selling the money for rice.

One day, there was a bird from Phoenix flying to eat slaughtering. Seeing that, the younger man put on a bird stalk and said. "Hey birds! I only have one car, and I have been hard to care to pick fruit. Now if the birds eat all I have nothing to sell to buy rice. So if the bird wants to eat bring something worthwhile.

Birds just eat and reply: "Eat a fruit, return the gold bag to three bags, carry that." The children heard birds say so, also for birds to eat. A few days later, birds came to eat. Eat bird finished to tell his brother to get three bags of gold to get. The younger brother ran into the house and took a bag of three cast iron ready to climb on the back of the bird.

Birds fly forever, flying through the high mountains, across the vast ocean and landed on an island full of gold, jewelry. My brother went all over the island watching the delight and took the gold bag filled with three gangs. The Phoenix asked for more, the brother did not take. Finished, the brother climbed up his bird back home.

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From then on, the younger brother became rich, his younger brother brought rice, rice, gold and silver to help the poor. He heard that he was rich and went to play and demanded to change his house, his garden with a sweet carp, his brother also agreed to exchange for him. So he moved to his sister. Next year, the tree again wrongly bear fruit, birds Phoenix came to eat. He pretended to weep, the bird said: "Eat a fruit, return the gold bag in three bags, carry it."

He was so happy, urged his wife to bag not 3 cast iron but 12 cast iron to hold more gold. The next day the Phoenix bird took his brother to collect gold. Just arrived, his brother rushed gold grabbed in the bag, also added more gold put in person. Birds try to fly, but the road is far away, so gold is too heavy. Several times the bird told his brother to throw away the light gold but his brother insisted on holding the bag. The Phoenix bird exasperated, and he threw his cock into the sea.

Tam and Cam


There were once two stepsisters named Tam and Cam. Tam was the daughter of their father's first wife. She died when the child was young so her father took a second wife. Some years later the father died and left Tam to live with her stepmother and stepsister.

Her stepmother was most severe and treated the girl harshly. Tam had to labor all day and long into the night. When there was any daylight she had to care for the buffalo, carry water for the cooking, do the washing and pick vegetables and water-fern for the pigs to eat. At night she had to spend a lot of time husking the rice. While Tam worked hard her sister did nothing but play games. She was given pretty clothes to wear and always got the best food.

Early one morning the second-mother gave two creels to Tam and Cam and told them to go to the paddy fields to catch tiny shrimp and crab. I will give a yêm of red cloth to the one who brings home a full creel," she promised.

Tam was very familiar with the task of finding shrimp and crab in the paddy fields, and by lunchtime she had filled her creel. Cam walked and waded from field to field but she could not catch anything. She looked at Tam's full creel and said to her, "Oh, my dear sister Tam, your hair is covered in mud. Get into the pond to wash it, or you will be scolded by mother when you return home."

Believing what her sister told her, Tam hurried to the pond to wash herself. As soon as her stepsister entered the water, Cam emptied the shrimp and crab into her own creel, and hurried home to claim the yêm of red cloth.

When she had finished washing and saw her empty creel Tam burst into tears.

A Buddha who was sitting on a lotus in the sky heard her sobs and came down beside her. "Why are you crying?" asked the Buddha.

Tam told him all that had happened and the Buddha comforted her. "Do not be tearful. Look into your creel and see if anything is left."

Tam looked into the creel and said to the Buddha, "There is only one tiny bông fish."

"Take the fish and put it in the pond near your home. At every meal you must save a bowl of rice with which to feed it. When you want the fish to rise to the surface to eat the rice you must call like this:

Dear bông, dear bông,
Rise only to eat my golden rice,
For that of others will not taste nice.

Goodbye child, I wish you well." After saying this the Buddha disappeared.

Tam put the fish in the pond as she had been bidden, and every day, after lunch and the evening meal, she took some rice to feed it. Day by day the bông fish grew, and the girl became great friends with it.

Seeing Tam take rice to the pond after each meal the second-mother became suspicious, and bade Cam go to spy on her stepsister. Cam hid in a bush near the pond. When Tam called the bông fish the hidden girl listened to the words, and rushed to her mother to tell her of the secret.

That evening, the second-mother instructed Tam that on the following day she must take the buffalo to the far field.

"It is now the season for vegetables. Buffalo cannot graze in the village. Tomorrow you have to take the buffalo to the far field. If you graze in the village it will be taken by the notables."

Tam set off very early the next morning to ride the buffalo to the far field. When she was gone, Cam and her mother took rice to the pond and called the bông fish. It rose to the surface and the woman caught it. She then took it to the kitchen where she cooked and ate it.

Tam returned in the evening, and after eating her meal took rice to the pond to feed her friend. She called and called, again and again, but she saw only a drop of blood on the surface of the water. Tam knew that something terrible had happened to the bông fish and began to weep.

The Buddha appeared by her side again. "Why do you weep this time, my child?"

Tam sobbed out her story and the Buddha spoke. "Your fish has been caught and eaten. Now, stop crying. You must find the bones of the fish and put them in four jars. After doing this you must bury the jars. Put one under each of the legs of your bed."

Tam searched and searched for the bones of her beloved friend but could not find them anywhere. As she looked even further a rooster came and called to her.

Cock-a-doodle-do, cock-a-doodle-do,
A handful of rice,
And I'll find the bones for you.

Tam gave rice to the rooster, and when it had eaten it strutted into the kitchen. In no time at all the elegant fowl returned with the bones and laid them at Tam's feet. The girl placed the bones into four jars and buried one under each of the legs of her bed.

Some months later the king proclaimed that there would be a great festival. All the people of Tam's village were going to attend, and the road was thronged with well dressed people making their way to the capital. Cam and her mother put on their finest clothes in readiness to join them. When the woman saw that Tam also wanted to attend the gala day she winked at Cam. Then she mixed a basketful of unhusked rice with the basket of clean rice Tam had prepared the previous evening. "You may go to the festival when you have separated this grain. If there isn't any rice to cook when we return home you will be beaten."

With that, she and her daughter joined the happy people on their way to the festival, and left Tam to her lonely task. She started to separate the rice, but she could see that it was hopeless and she began to weep.

Once again the Buddha appeared by her side. "Why are there tears in your eyes?" he asked.

Tam explained about the rice grains that had to be separated, and how the festival would be over by the time she had finished.

"Bring your baskets to the yard," said the Buddha. I will call the birds to help you."

The birds came and pecked and fluttered until, in no time at all, they had divided the rice into two baskets. Not one single grain did they eat, but when they flew away Tam began to weep again.

"Now why are you crying?" asked the Buddha.

"My clothes are too poor," sobbed Tam. "I thank you for your help, but I cannot go dressed like this."

"Go and dig up the four jars," ordered the Buddha. "Then you will have all you need."

Tam obeyed and opened the jars. In the first she found a beautiful silk dress, a silk yêm and a scarf of the same material. In the second jar she found a pair of embroidered shoes of a cunning design which fitted her perfectly. When she opened the third jar great was her surprise when she saw a miniature horse. It neighed once, and grew to become a noble steed. In the fourth jar there was a richly ornamented saddle and bridle which grew to fit the horse. She washed herself and brushed her hair until it shone. Then she put on her wonderful new clothes and rode off to the festival.

On the way she had to ride through a stream flowing over the road. As she did so, one of her embroidered shoes fell into the water and sank beneath the surface. She was in such a hurry that she could not stop to search for it, so she wrapped the other shoe in her scarf and rode on.

Shortly afterwards, the king and his entourage, led by two elephants, arrived at the same spot. The elephants refused to enter the water and lowered their tusks, bellowing and trumpeting. When no amount of goading would force them on, the king ordered his followers to search the water. One of them found the embroidered shoe and brought it to the king, who inspected it closely.

Finally he said, "The girl who wore a shoe as beautiful as this must herself be very beautiful. Let us go on to the festival and find her. Whoever it fits will be my wife."

There was great excitement when all the women learned of the king's decision, and they eagerly waited for their turn to try on the shoe.

Cam and her mother struggled to make it fit, but to no avail, and when they saw Tam waiting patiently nearby the woman sneered at her. "How can someone as common as you be the owner of such a shoe? And where did you steal those fine clothes? Wait till we get home. If there isn't any rice to cook I am going to beat you severely."

Tam said nothing, but when it came her turn to try on the shoe it fitted perfectly. Then she showed the other one that was wrapped in the scarf, and everyone knew that she was the future queen.

The king ordered his servants to take Tam to the palace in a palanquin, and she rode off happily under the furious and jealous gazes of her stepsister and stepmother.

Tam was very happy living in the citadel with the king, but she never forgot her father. As the anniversary of his death came nearer she asked the king if she could return to her village to prepare the offering.

When Cam and her mother saw that Tam had returned, their jealous minds formed a wicked plan. "You must make an offering of betel to your father," said the stepmother. "That areca tree over there has the best nuts. You are a good climber, so you must go to the top of the tree and get some."

Tam climbed the tree and when she was at the top her stepmother took an axe and began to chop at the trunk. The tree shivered and shook and Tam cried out in alarm. "What is happening? Why is the tree shaking so?"

"There are a lot of ants here," called her stepmother. "I am chasing them away."

She continued to chop until the tree fell. Its crown, with Tam in it, toppled into a deep pond and the beautiful young woman was drowned. The wicked murderer gathered Tam's clothes, gave them to Cam, and le...