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Overview

In Fleeson’s origin story, early rice grains are large enough for one to feed a person. Ripe grains roll from the fields into village granaries without human harvesting. When a widow is rebuilding her storehouse, she strikes a grain for arriving before the work is finished.

The grain shatters and answers that rice will henceforth wait in the fields until people want it. The narrative explains both the present small grains and the need for harvesting through this quarrel. The subject is speaking, self-moving grain within this particular tale, not a separately named rice goddess or a claim about cultivated rice in the natural world.

Animate giant grain of an origin taleSource-specific local narrative
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Origins & earliest records

Historical Laos country within Siam, as identified by the collection

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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

    Katherine Neville Fleeson, collector/translator · 1899

    VI.5, The Legend of the Rice, pp. 85–86

Family & connections

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Primary records and illustrations

Direct primary record

Katherine Neville Fleeson, Laos Folk-Lore of Farther India (Fleming H. Revell, 1899)

Historical Laos country of Siam; English collection. VI.5, The Legend of the Rice, pp. 85–86

Full story, relevant footnotes and introduction read. Primary witness is the historical English collection; no claim of direct oral field verification, precise modern location or original-language nomenclature.

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References

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  1. Historical folktale collectionFleeson (1899), VI.5, The Legend of the Rice, pp. 85–86Research access: 2026-10-05

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