TWO BURMESE FOLKTALES - Folklore from Myanmar

Book excerpt: ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 47 ÿ In Issue 47 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates two legends from ancient Burma, modern day Myanmar. The first is the tale of The Disrespectful Daughter ? a tale with a moral for young people. The second is a folk tale, also with a moral, about three sisters who open their front door to a hungry tiger. ÿ ÿ This issue also has a "Where in the World - Look it Up" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story, on map. HINT - use Google maps. ÿ Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories". ÿ It is believed that folklore and tales are believed to have originated in India and made their way overland along the Silk and Spice routes and through Central Asia before arriving in Europe. Even so, this does not cover all folklore from all four corners of the world. Indeed folklore, legends and myths from Africa, Australia, Polynesia, and some from Asia too, are altogether quite different and seem to have originated on the whole from separate reservoirs of lore, legend and culture.