I really enjoyed this unit even though I thought that it was silly at times. The story of Of the Pretty Stranger who Killed the King was very entertaining. It was about a witch who turns herself into a beautiful woman in order to seduce the greedy King. The King fell for her of course and married her immediately. While he was asleep she cut the King's head off. The moral of this story was pretty much about "stranger danger" or "do not trust strangers."
Another story about the dangers of strangers was The Disobedient Daughter who Married a Skull. This story was about a vain girl who had very high standards; she would only marry someone who was just as good looking as she was. The Skull heard this and so masked himself with beautiful body parts. The girl saw the him and instantly married him. It was not until they crossed into the spiritual world that she finally realized the Skull's true form. Underneath all those beautiful human parts he was hideous.
The story of Why the Bat Flies by Night was also humorous. To summarize this story was about why bats are nocturnal. In this story the bat tricks a rat into boiling himself by telling him that if he boils himself and using that boiled water, his food will be even sweeter. The naive rat believed him and boiled himself -- to death. That rat's wife was so devastated by her husband's death she told on the bat to the King. The king decreed that the bat be captured and imprisoned. So to avoid imprisonment, the bat only comes out at night.
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