My second story for this week’s notes seemed very familiar; it was also one of Aesop’s tales. It’s called How the Raven Saved the Hunter, from Tibetan Folk Tales by A. L. Shelton.
Reading Notes
- There was a very poor man who managed to make a living by hunting, but he often had nothing to eat or drink.
- One day he went out on a hunt, and traveled for a distance.
- Eventually he came to the top of a mountain, and realizing his thirst upon seeing a stream, he made his way down to it.
- He fashioned a cup from a leaf and filled it with water, but just as he raised the leaf to his lips, a raven flew up and knocked the leaf from the man’s hand with its wing.
- The man thought it was an accident, and refilled his leaf, but the raven knocked the water away again.
- When this happened a third time, the man became angry and shot the raven dead with his bow.
- After his rush of anger, the man wondered why the raven had been so adamant about the whole thing.
- Before he drank, the man walked a short distance upstream, only to discover the stream originated from the mouth of a great snake, and the skeletons of different animals littering the banks of the stream.
- The man was greatly upset, realizing that he had killed the raven when it was just trying to save his life.
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