- Girly-face is name of elephant owned by a king
- he was a kind and gentle looking elephant
- one night robbers awoke girly-face and he overheard them talking about how to be cruel and be good robbers
- girly face decided that he wanted to act like that too
- the next morning he killed the keeper when he came to feed him
- he killed the next keeper who went to help
- for many days he acted like this and killed people
- a wise man was sent to look him over and found out that there had been bad men there
- that night the king sent good men to talk
- girly face listened and decided that he wanted to be good
- he lived happily ever after
The Princess and the Water Sprite:
- there were 3 princes, 1 was named Prince of Stars, the other Moon Prince and the last Sun Prince
- the queen asked the king to give the kingdom to Sun Prince
- he told her no and that the eldest and 2nd eldest would be king by right
- the king told the 2 older princes to go off and live in the woods because he was afraid the queen may kill them, the third, Sun Prince joined.
- in the forest the youngest prince went to retrieve water from a pond
- the pond was owned by a faire king and the fairies could have power of anybody who entered the pond unless gave the right answer to the question "what are the good fairies like?"
- they asked him the question and he answered "they are like the Sun and the Moon"
- that was the wrong answer so the water-spite carried him into a cave
- the Moon Prince got down there and he answered "Like the sky above us"
- that was the wrong answer so she carried him off too
- the eldest brother went down and realized that there was a water-spite so he drew his sword
- the spite appeared in a form of a woodworker
- he asked the spite why she took his brothers
- he answered the question right and the spite said he would bring back a brother
- the sprite brought back the princes and they lived in the forest until the king died
- they returned home and the eldest was king but the other 2 ruled with him
- he built a house for the sprite on their kingdom grounds
- they lived happily ever after
Source:
Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt, 1912.
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