One Innocent Farmer
A Chinese folk tale of divine justice
I heard this tale from a German teller, Ingeborg Klink.
A storyteller in Israel, Lois Tzur, tells me that she has a copy in Chinese Fairy Tales, a small volume published by Peter Pauper Press (1946). No source was given in the book.
However, Mo Yan (Nobel Prize in Literature, 2012) ended his acceptance lecture by telling this tale, which he had heard from his grandfather.
A storyteller in Israel, Lois Tzur, tells me that she has a copy in Chinese Fairy Tales, a small volume published by Peter Pauper Press (1946). No source was given in the book.
However, Mo Yan (Nobel Prize in Literature, 2012) ended his acceptance lecture by telling this tale, which he had heard from his grandfather.
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