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(Till Eulenspiegel via Wikimedia Commons ) Storybook Layout: For Anansi's stories, I will be combining a couple of stories into one bragging point (story) for this specific trickster as the stories are pretty short.     Anansi will start off talking about how they tricked the tiger so many times by combining these specific stories ( Story 1 , Story 2 , Story 3 ).  Then Anansi will later use these set of stories ( Story 4 , Story 5 ) as a larger bragging point. For Till Eulenspiegel's stories, I will use two stories with the first being "How Eulenspiegel Healed the Sick" and "How Eulenspiegel Danced on the High Wire" from this source . (If I could get maybe one more source or more stories for this trickster, it would be much appreciated) For Coyote's stories, I will be using two stories with the first being " Coyote and Grizzly " and " Coyote and the Dragon ". (If I could get a couple more reliable websites for stories on this trickste...

  ("King for Three Days" by Gertrude Landa via UN-Textbook ) The second story that I chose to focus on for this week is “ King for Three Days ” by Gertrude Landa (1919). In this story, a cruel warrior and general wished to purge the Jewish people which he eventually accomplishes, but at a great cost. I chose this story because the warrior learned a lesson in the end similar to the other story that I chose this week. In the stories for the second part of the reading, I noticed that rabbis were very common in these tales and this one was no exception. In most of the stories, the rabbi was typically some sort of sage or wizard that had great insight and knowledge above most others. They usually forewarned the main character of danger or helped to teach them a lesson. In the case of this story, the arrogant warrior gets taught a lesson and becomes humbled by the end. Another common thing about this tale and others in this section is that the characters and setting are base...

("The Beggar King" by Gertrude Landa via UN-Textbook )  The story that I chose to focus my reading notes on this week was " The Beggar King " by Gertrude Landa (1919).  I really enjoyed this story because it showed the importance of having a certain level of humility.  In this story, a very prideful king put himself above others and believes that he is the most important being.  Then a genie decides to teach him a lesson by pretending to be the king thus making the king live a normal peasant life.  The king then goes through struggles and ends up learning his lesson until he eventually returns to be a humble, wise king.  I feel as if the plot story is quite common as it starts with someone that has a negative trait/aspect to them which is then fixed by putting them into someone else's shoes.  There is also a magical element that allows them to be put into someone else's shoes, in this case the genie, in most stories with this kind of plot.  The en...