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fall all the way to the bottom. Instead, he hung swinging back <strong>and</strong> forth from the tree. Rabbit then shouted, "Uncle Tiger, if you're the son of a good father, say 'ah', but if you're the son of a bad father, just say 'om'." This shout echoed throughout the canyon. Stupid Tiger said, "Ah," opening his mouth <strong>and</strong> losing his grip on the tree. He crashed to the ground <strong>and</strong> died. Rabbit then darted to his friends to announce the greatest news they would ever hear. The rabbits celebrated Tiger's death, while Tiger suffered in Hell for what he had done during his lifetime. Lying beside Gr<strong>and</strong>mother, I heaved a sympathetic sigh for the stupid tiger. Gr<strong>and</strong>mother said, "Kondro, don't do bad things in your life, or retribution will be the consequence. You can never avoid it. If it doesn't happen to you in this life, then it surely will happen to you in your next life." Caves where village children play. ▪86▪
21 PRAYING FOR RAIN F arming villages depend on rain to water the crops that support their arduous life. Our village is no exception. We yearn for rainfall after the fields are plowed in the hope of having bountiful harvests. Villagers stopped collecting medicinal herbs for nearly three years for religious reasons, relinquishing the extra cash income the herbs brought because they believed that digging for the herbs irritated the mountain deities, who then withheld rain. Poor harvests mean we have nothing. Even if we do not earn money from the grain that we grow, it meets our basic food needs <strong>and</strong> praying for rain is the first thing we do when drought strikes. Deer also eat the crops, causing poor harvests, but we dare not kill them because we believe they belong to Danghi Mountain Deity, who sends hail, destroying our crops if he is angered by those who kill or disturb his sacred animals. Moreover, local people will fall ill <strong>and</strong> their livestock will die. This is why we protect deer no matter how badly they damage our crops. We built fences around the fields, instead of throwing stones <strong>and</strong> clods at the deer, but this was not very successful. All the women went to a sacred stream to pray to the water deity. Only women went. It was shameful if a man went. This is because locals believe that water goddesses from different sacred streams married, <strong>and</strong> then went to their husb<strong>and</strong>'s home. Each water goddess has her own area of water, which she protects from drying up. Each of the goddesses misses her husb<strong>and</strong>, who rarely visits his wife. This exasperates the goddesses so much that they feel wronged <strong>and</strong> begin to act rashly. Despite their infinite anger, the goddesses pretend to be happy <strong>and</strong> do not shed tears of longing for their husb<strong>and</strong>s, which is why drought comes <strong>and</strong> why women visit the sacred streams <strong>and</strong> lakes. Only women know the words that can arouse the goddess sexually. They bring sexual pleasure to the goddess by giving her the feeling that she is with her beloved one. The water goddess sheds tears <strong>and</strong> it rains if the women are ▪87▪
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A ZORGAY TIBETAN CHILDHOOD
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EDITORIAL ASSISTANCE ______________
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ACCLAIM ___________________________
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PREFACE K ondro Tsering's A <strong
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THE AUTHOR ________________________
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My brother scowled and</str
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3 GRANDMOTHER AND ME rand</
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sleeping mat. I can't see them very
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4 FIRST TOY W hen I was six, no fam
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left for the forest to cut wood for
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5 A FART S aturday provided a good
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horse, and I’ll
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6 A FAMILY OF CHILDREN S ince I was
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Although it was daytime, we pretend
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"Really? Then I was wrong for not w
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it was not entirely my fault but, s
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Page 101 and 102: 25 GHOST STORIES L ocal people have
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historia för mig eftersom jag ska
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Jag utropade upphetsat: "Pappa, far
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Han svarade lugnt: "Jag lekte med m
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men jag vill sova. Vi kan leka imor
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ostiga ficklampor, skopor och annat
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7 MIN FÖRSTA TRAGEDI K onstigt nog
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sätt att göra snögubbar som han
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8 ETT TRÅKIGT STÄLLE D et var kv
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ålder. Jag kände inte något av d
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Wo qu shang xue xiao, Tian tian bu
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10 ATT GÅ RUNT ETT HELIGT BERG är
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området ensam, utan de trettio hj
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åttom att sätta upp tältet innan
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de två bergsgudomarna vände rygge
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11 STUDIER HALVT OM HALVT S ommarlo
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klarade matteexamen första termine
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Till slut var lektionerna över och
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13 MORS ORÄTTVISA LIV F ödsel bet
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och grälade på far utan anledning
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varför tar du hit honom? Det är i
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Den dagen var jag på dåligt humö
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Vi försökte allt, men döden kom
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14 SKOLKARE M or hade varit död i
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"Tack, Dorji. Du har alltid hjälpt
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15 EN OMÖJLIG DRÖM V intern är e
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Vi har inte sådan tur att vi ser h
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16 NÄR JAG HÖLL PÅ ATT BLI MUNK
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adamsäpple guppade upp och ner ock
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mantror insköt hon: "Ni är för u
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17 SVINAHERDE M in by lever på jor
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stia. De grymtade och visade sin gl
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Om vädret är fint är det verklig
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Tashi inte skäller på dem. De gö
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19 MINA TIBETANSKA STÖVLAR A tt g
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20 KANIN I min hemtrakt berättas e
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sa kaninen och hoppades att tigern
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21 BÖNER OM REGN B ondbyar är ber
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antingen korta skurar eller ett st
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skörda. Vi delade upp fälten i de
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23 GODA VÄNNER? L ivet var svårt.
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mig för att hämta mig vilket gena
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24 TELEVISIONEN KOMMER IN I MITT LI
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Gesar, för han var min favorit. "<
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25 SPÖKHISTORIER V i är säkra p
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Utmed vägen till vår by finns det
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sig i flera år och vi ville inte h
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oss och skrek: "Håll tyst, småung
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27 UTAN VATTEN V atten var ett stor
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28 EN NATTLIG VISIT A tt besöka fl
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för att ha slagit flickans mor. Ug
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själv om att befria mig från mina
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