Sunrise

xix.--_Sunrise._ When the sun rises at the head of the world [_i.e._ in the east], a devil tries to swallow it. But some one thrusts two or three crows or foxes…

xix.--_Sunrise._

When the sun rises at the head of the world [_i.e._ in the east], a devil tries to swallow it. But some one thrusts two or three crows or foxes into the devil's mouth. Meanwhile the sun mounts on high. The creatures, than which there are none more numerous in this world, are the crows and the foxes. That is why things are thus. In return for this service of theirs, the crows and foxes share in all man's eatables. It is because of the above fact.--(Translated literally. Told by Penri, 13th July, 1886.)

xx.--_The Sex of the Two Luminaries._

Formerly it was the female luminary that came out at night. But she was so greatly shocked at the immoralities which she saw going on out of doors among the grass, that she exchanged with the male luminary, who, being a man, did not care so much. So now the sun is a female deity, and the moon is a male deity. But surely the sun must be often shocked at what she sees going on even in the day-time, when the young people are in the open among the grass.--(Written down from memory. Told by Ishanashte, November, 1886.)

II.--MORAL TALES.