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A man abandons his family for his wife, then gives her half his own lifespan to bring her back from the dead. She repays him at a well, and then in a king's court.
Two men are each set an absurd condition by an angry wife, and each agrees. In open court the next morning, one of them explains the other's shaved head.
A woman takes her old husband's money and runs off with a stranger, who offers to carry it over the river first. On the bank, a jackal has just lost two things too.
Pushed around by his own relatives, a frog king climbs out of the well and invites a snake back down to settle the score for him.
A jackal lures a washerman's worn-out donkey to a wounded lion with talk of emerald meadows. It takes two attempts, and two different lies.
A king takes the savage scar on a newcomer's forehead for a war wound and honours him above all his warriors. Then, on the eve of battle, he asks how he got it.
A lioness nurses an orphaned jackal cub as her own third son. He grows up between two lion brothers, never told what he is — until an elephant appears.
A washerman throws a dead tiger's skin over his starving donkey and turns him loose in the barley fields at night. The guards keep their distance.
A young camel enjoys straggling behind the herd with his bell ringing as he comes. The other camels explain what a bell can call.
A jackal finds a dead elephant whose hide he cannot break. Then a lion arrives, and a tiger, and a leopard, and a rival jackal.
A famine drives a dog to a rich city, where the food is wonderful, the kitchens are careless, and the local dogs bite him every single day.