Reading Part B: The Girl and the Thief


The King making the thief a general: Source

The stories I have read are based on a Goblin sitting on the king's shoulder and telling him a story.At the end of each story, he asks the King a question. I the story of The Girl and the Thief, a young woman is disgusted with the thought of marriage. Her father does not say anything about this, but he is slightly upset about it. 

A thief is roaming the city where the girl lives, and the king went out to capture this thief. Once he does, he leads him to his fate of dying. The girl sees this thief and falls in love with him. She tells her father to convince the king to let him go, but the king declines. Before the thief dies, he sees the girl and smiles with a tear rolling down his face. The girl takes his lifeless body to the god, Shiva. Shiva brings the thief back to life, and the king appoints him to general after learning of his courage. 

The question the goblin asks the king is "O king, when the thief on the stake saw the merchant's daughter approaching with her father, did he weep or laugh?"

Bibliography: Story source: Twenty-Two Goblins, translated by Arthur W. Ryder, with illustrations by Perham W. Nahl (1917).


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