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Overview
An owl’s and cricket’s cries frighten a deer, which flees and crushes a fish. Its flight also dislodges seed into a chicken’s eye, sends the chicken into an ant nest, provokes ants to bite a mongoose and makes the mongoose shake fruit onto a hermit. During the inquiry, animals, fruit and seed explain each link. The judge ultimately orders the cricket to repair the fish because it is smaller and weaker than the other accused, exposing unequal justice. The commanded repair is not actually performed in the narrated ending, and the cricket has no stated healing power.
Origins & earliest records
Historical Laos country within Siam, as identified by the collection
Records & interpretation
Complete relevant narrative and Willis G. Craig’s introduction directly read.
Selected bibliography
Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.
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Laos Folk-Lore of Farther India
II.1, Right and Might, pp. 27–29 and notes6–7
Family & connections
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Primary records and illustrations
Katherine Neville Fleeson, Laos Folk-Lore of Farther India (Fleming H. Revell, 1899)
II.1, Right and Might. II.1, Right and Might, pp. 27–29 and notes6–7
Entire relevant tale and notes read. Narrative claims kept distinct from factual natural history; no unrecorded physical traits, resolution or individual narrator supplied. Original paraphrase of1899 witness.
References
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- Historical folktale collectionFleeson1899, II.1, Right and Might, pp. 27–29 and notes6–7Research access: 2026-10-05
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