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Buri and the Marrow

by Henriette Barkow · 2000

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As an old woman travels through the forest to meet her daughter, a fox, a tiger and a lion try to eat her. Buri tells them to wait until she returns, then she'll be nice and fat. When it is time for her to go home, her daughter thinks of a plan which fools the lion and the tiger. But will the fox be tricked?

Genre
fairy talefairy taleMore like thisLess of thisfantasyfantasyMore like thisLess of thisfolklorefolkloreMore like thisLess of thismyths and folkloremyths and folkloreMore like thisLess of this
Themes
animalsanimalsMore like thisLess of thismother daughtermother daughterMore like thisLess of this
Setting
BengalBengalMore like thisLess of thisGermanyGermanyMore like thisLess of thisIndiaIndiaMore like thisLess of thisTamil NaduTamil NaduMore like thisLess of this
Audience
childrens
Length
short · 24 pages

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