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Overview

In Ta Pome receives three petitioners seeking a substance that turns stones and metals into gold. He demands an extreme test involving their children. Two substitute animals; the third obeys. The god sprinkles the containers, the pig and dog revive with their characteristic cries, and the child is restored to life. He then grants the requested substance to the compliant father.

The English collection connects the three petitioners with China, Siam and India and explains their different livelihoods through the god’s judgments. These are the tale’s moral and ethnic generalizations, not reliable descriptions of those populations or evidence of a historical sacrificial practice. The printed name In Ta Pome is retained without an unsupported identification with a better-known deity.

Divinity who restores life and grants transmutationSource-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

    VIII.6, The Justice of In Ta Pome, pp. 111–112

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. VIII.6, The Justice of In Ta Pome, pp. 111–112

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), VIII.6, The Justice of In Ta Pome, pp. 111–112Research access: 2026-10-05

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