Mingalar Zing Aung - Burmese folk tales about the incomparable mother

Not crazy, stupid people.

Long ago, there lived in a village four foolish men. Their names were Big-headed, Nga-sap, Nga-pu, and Nga-sah. However, no one ever called them by their real names. They were simply called the Four Fools. They were called that because they were so lacking in judgment, judgment, and judgment.

One day, an old woman took pity on the four of them and asked them to do a job. The job was to move the bundles of leaves from outside the house to the inside of the house. So the four of them lined up in a row, carrying the bundles.

Nga Shang asked first.

"Mom, where should I put it?"

"The preacher is laid on a log"

“When the old man placed his small head on the log that the old woman pointed to, the big head would follow suit.

"Mother, where should I put the young man's belt?"

"Laid where Nga Lah was laid down"

"Mom, where should I put it?"

"Can't you see my head hanging down?"

"Mother, where should I put my young son?"

"Didn't you see the people in front of you getting off?"

A moment later, the first Nga-shai arrived, still not in the same place as before.

"Mother, where should I put the young man's belt?"

"On my head, on my head"

I don't know what you're saying out of spite. Indeed, he threw a small bundle of straw on the old woman's head, and that one bundle killed her. However, the other three men threw it on the old woman again.

The villagers who had been watching from afar came running, but they could not save the old lady's life. It was more important to kill the body than to charge the crazy people with murder. So they sent four fools into the forest to chop down trees to cut off the head.

Four idiots cut down a large tree next to the sidewalk. They kept cutting it down, but the tree didn't fall.

However, Nga Sap gave me a good idea.

"Hey...the wind is blowing the tree down quickly. Someone is climbing the treetops and whistling away."

Then the big head climbed up the tree and whistled. The tree almost fell, but he didn't come down. So when the tree fell, the big head was also crushed by the tree and died.

The remaining Nga Sap, Nga Sa, and Nga Pu did not know that the head was dead. They thought he was sleeping, so they sat and waited next to the head. Soon, a foul smell came from the head's corpse. The three fools were still sitting and waiting.

A traveler soon arrived.

"Friends, what are you doing sitting here?"

"Our friend is sleeping, waiting for him to wake up."

It's hard to cry and hard to laugh while traveling.

"It's not sleeping, it's the fools', it's the forest. It's already stinking rotten."

Then the three fools buried the headman's body and left. As they were leaving, one of them quietly sniffed the air. All three of them could smell the stench of the air.

"Ha..we're already doing it, if it rots, it must be because we're dead."

All three of them lay down on the cart path. Soon an elephant arrived.

"People on the cart path, move away...move away, the elephant is coming."

"We can't remove it, we're dead."

Nga Sae shouted again. The elephant leader, unable to stop shouting, finally ran down from the elephant. Nga Sae was stabbed with a spear, and Nga Sae sat up. Nga Sae and Nga Pu were also startled and sat up.

"If your equipment is strong and sturdy, you can make the dead sit up. Can you replace it with our saw and hammer?"

The elephant's head was not worth half the price of a sword. Now that he had the extra sword, he happily exchanged it for a sword and rode away on his elephant. The three fools, overjoyed at having found a weapon that could bring the dead back to life, went to another village instead of their original village.

There was a funeral in that village. The relatives of the deceased entered the place, wailing loudly, and then they pierced the funeral pyre with a spear.

"Does it make me sick and die, disfigured and disfigured because I can't stand it?"

The villagers surrounded me and beat me.

"I'm hungry, that's why I brought the dead back to life."

Nga Sap, who was blocking the shots with his bare hands and feet, explained.

"If you are hungry, you have to be kind to the person you are in charge of. For example, if you see a funeral, you have to cry out loud, uncle, niece, and nephew."

"My dear... I know, my dear... my niece's death is premature."

Nga Sap started crying, and Nga Sya and Nga Pu followed suit.

They ate at the funeral home and then continued on their way. They were hungry by the time the sun set. So they ran into the nearest village. They happened to find a wedding hall. Ngapu ran to the beautifully dressed bride.

"My dear...my niece, I'm so sorry for your early death, eh...hehe"

The audience went wild, kicking and punching each other.

"Please be patient, I did it so we could eat."

"If you want to eat, this wedding is as beautiful and elegant as the sun and moon, like gold and emerald. The bride is beautiful, the groom is handsome, what can I say?"

The three fools remembered that and continued their journey, arriving at a village in the dark. They were so excited that they went into the house of a couple who were quarreling and laughed loudly. The one who said that the groom was handsome and the bride was pretty was beaten.

Knowing the benefits, the host couple fed him and taught him this.

"If you see something that is not right, you should say things like, 'Control your anger,' 'Reduce your anger,' 'Let's just talk about it,' 'Husband and wife,' etc."

The three fools took note of this and set off. Just in time, they saw two buffaloes galloping wildly.

"The future is about controlling anger."

"Big sister, please reduce it."

"Yes, of course, husband and wife go together."

This time, the three fools were not allowed to eat. They got caught between two buffaloes and were gored, ending the story.