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The mythology of the ethnic Vietnamese people (the Việt,) has been transferred through oral traditions and in writing. The story of Lạc Long Quân and Âu Cơ has been cited as the common creation myth of the Vietnamese people. The story details how two progenitors, the man known as the Lạc Long Quân and the woman known as the Âu Cơ ...
Truyện Trê Cóc (The chronicle of the catfish and the frog) is a 398-line satirical poem written in Vietnam in the 13th Century. [1] In the poem a catfish steals the tadpoles of two frogs. The frogs appeal to the mandarin who orders the catfish imprisoned. However the wife of the catfish bribes the mandarin's assistant to have the case re ...
"The Student and the Frog" - about a frog who becomes a beautiful woman; Tấm Cám ("The Two Sisters") - a dark Cinderella story; Từ Thức Gặp Tiên ("Từ Thức and the Goddess") - A mandarin meets a girl at a Buddhist temple who is really a goddess. "The Student and the Painting" - a girl in a painting [5] [6]
Folklorist Andrew Lang listed myths about a frog or toad that swallows or blocks the flow of waters occurring in many world mythologies. [1]On the other hand, researcher Anna Engelking drew attention to the fact that studies on Indo-European mythology and its language see "a link between frogs and the underworld, and – by extension – sickness and death".
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Đông Hồ painting depicts Phù Đổng Thiên Vương Statue of little Thánh Gióng at Phù Đổng Six-Way Intersection, Ho Chi Minh City. Thánh Gióng (chữ Nôm: 聖揀), [1] also known as Phù Đổng Thiên Vương (chữ Hán: 扶董天王, Heavenly Prince of Phù Đổng), Sóc Thiên Vương (chữ Hán: 朔天王), Ông Gióng (翁揀, sir Gióng) [2] [3] and Xung Thiên Thần ...
A plague of frogs is seen as a punishment in the Old Testament of the Bible. A frog being eaten by King Stork, by Milo Winter to illustrate a 1919 Aesop anthology. Two fables attributed to Aesop, The Frogs Who Desired a King and The Frog and the Ox feature frog characters. The Frogs is a comic play by Aristophanes.
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