My favorite story was, The Foolish, Timid Rabbit:
- In this story, the main character was a rabbit, then came to be several rabbits, a deer, a fox, an elephant, a monkey in a tree, and a king lion. The story was similar to Chicken Little. The story started with a rabbit asleep under a palm tree, who awoke from his nap with the question of what would become of him if the world fell apart. While in his anxious state of mind a coconut fell from a tree and caused him to think the world really was falling apart. This put him into panic mode and he began running telling everyone the earth was falling apart. After he had struck up fear and recruited more members to his panic, word spread and more animals ran with them. Eventually, they came across the king lion who made the rabbit take him back to where he thought the earth was falling apart. Once they did, they learned it was just a coconut and fear had been struck up for nothing. I feel like this story could have lead to stories such as the little boy who cried wolf.
- (Picture from Jatakas storybook: Photo by Ellesworth Young)
- I took this picture from the story because I thought it was really funny. I like how the rabbit is behind the other animals, as he was behind the rumor.
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