Mullah Nasrudin was a digging a grave in the cemetry when from afar he saw the sand blowing in the distant desert. His imagination got the better of him and he thought it was a band of brigands. In fear for his life he jumped into the half dug grave site.
In the distance a group [...]
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Coyote’s wife dies of an illness and he weeps for her. He is visited by the death spirit who offers to take him to the land of the dead if Coyote will follow his instructions. Coyote agrees. On their journey the spirit points out a herd of horses. Coyote cannot see the horses but he [...]
source: Native American Lore Index
One spring day Coyote and Fox were out for a walk, and when they came to a big smooth rock, Coyote threw his blanket over it and they sat down to rest. After a while the Sun became very hot, and Coyote decided he no longer needed the blanket. “Here, brother,” [...]
Coyote traveled through the country, fighting monsters and making the world ready for the new people, the Indians who were to follow. He crossed the Cascade Mountains and came into the Puget Sound country. He was hungry, very hungry.
He saw Crow sitting on the peak of a high cliff, with a ball of deer [...]
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A boy, very attached to his pet pig, one day decided to enter it in a horse race. Much to his dismay the pig finished last and suffered the ridicule of all the horsemen. The boy was quite surprised, for, as he told one of the horsemen: “it makes no sense that a pig [...]
A guy takes a gorilla out golfing. They come up to the first tee and the gorilla asks, “What am I supposed to do?”
The guy says, “You see that little green spot about 400 yards from here? You’re supposed to hit the ball onto that.” So the gorilla hauls off and whacks the ball and [...]
Once, the villagers invited Mulla Nasruddin to deliver a lecture on spiritual matters.
When he got on the pulpit, he found the audience was not very enthusiastic, so he asked “Do you know what I am going to say?”
The audience replied “No”, so he announced “I have no desire to speak to people who don’t even [...]
A man once came to the Mullah Nasruddin. “Mullah,” he said, “let me borrow your clothesline.”
“I can’t,” said the Mullah. “I’m using it to dry flour.”
The man looked shocked. “You can’t dry flour on a clothesline. That’s hardly a good reason not to lend it to me.”
Said the Mullah, “Since I [...]
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