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The Foolish Quack

Folk tales are stories passed down orally through generations that are rich in cultural traditions. There are several types of folk tales including animal stories, epics, fables, fairy tales, legends, and myths. The document then provides a short example story of an imposter "doctor" who pretends he can cure goiter but ends up killing an old woman with his treatment and is then beaten and forced to dig her grave as punishment.

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The Foolish Quack

Folk tales are stories passed down orally through generations that are rich in cultural traditions. There are several types of folk tales including animal stories, epics, fables, fairy tales, legends, and myths. The document then provides a short example story of an imposter "doctor" who pretends he can cure goiter but ends up killing an old woman with his treatment and is then beaten and forced to dig her grave as punishment.

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Folk Tales:

1. Stories passed down through generation to generation


2. Oral Literature
3. Rich in culture
4. Give the moral lesson
5. Give wisdom

6 Types:
1. Animal Stories
2. Epics
3. Fables
4. Fairy Tales
5. Legends
6. Myths
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bunch releasing
T (One evening, as the sun was setting, some travellers stayed to rest under a clump of trees, and, loosening their
camels, set them to graze. It happened that one of the animals entered a melon-field, and that a melon stuck in
its throat. The owner, seeing this and fearing to lose the animal, tied a blanket round its throat, and then struck
promptly
the place with all his might. Instantly the melon broke in the throat of the camel, and it was then easily
engulfed
swallowed.)
watching procedure carried
A certain man who had just come up, looking on and observing this proceeding, shouldered his bundle,
feigned
and, going to the next village, pretended that he was a doctor.
P “But what can you cure?” asked the villagers.
Imposter/fake doctor
“I can cure the goitre,” answered the quack.
bulged terrible
An old woman, whose throat was swollen to a frightful size, exclaimed: “O my son, if you could only
cure my goitre, I would bless you for evermore!”
surely hammer
P “Certainly,” answered the man, “here, bring me a blanket and a good-sized mallet.”
As soon as they were brought, he tied up the woman's throat, and struck the swollen part
died
with so much force that the poor old creature instantly expired.
Criminal/scoundral
“Ah,” cried the people, “this fellow is a villain!”
grabbed
So they seized him, being minded to carry him before the king. One of them,
however, said: “She was a very old woman, who must have died shortly in any case. Let us
force rogue
therefore compel the wretch to dig her grave, and then we can beat him and let him go.” So
they took him and set him to work, but the ground was so stiff and hard that he made slow
progress.
“If you do not dig it,” said they, “before the king you shall go, and then you will be
hanged.”
Pressured/urged unlucky
Thus exhorted the unfortunate man, in the greatest fear, laboured away with all his might;
prey
and at last, when the villagers saw that he had finished his task and buried the victim of his
mistaken treatment, they beat him well and let him go.

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