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• http://www.humanity.org/voices/folklore/mermaids/poor_fisherman/
"The Mermaid and the Poor Fisherman."
• http://www.h-net.org/~nilas/seasons/Mermansock.html
"The Merman's Sock."
• http://gorp.away.com/gorp/activity/fishing/fis_stor.htm
Fishing Stories and Humor.
• http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm019.html
"The Fisherman and his Wife"
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http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm019.html
• http://www.storyarts.org/library/nutshell/stories/anansi.html
Here's a good one: "Anansi Goes Fishing."
• http://www.americanfolklore.net/folktales/me2.html
"The Fisherman and the Bear."
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1) Here are some great "tall tales" about fishing. Maybe there's something here that will help.
You'll find them at
http://chucklarkin.com/stories.html
A collection of tall tales about fish and the people who chase them
• "Mr. Bass"
• "Mississippi River Fishing"
• "Ringtail"
• "The Hobo Fish"
• "Jean Shilling’s Catfish Farm"
• "Lee Shilling’s Circus Catfish"
• "Fishing"
• "Fishing with Little Green Frogs"
• You might also look at these SOS categories:
http://www.story-lovers.com/listsoceanstories.html
http://www.story-lovers.com/listsseastories.html
• Haring, Lee "African Folktales and Creolization in the Indian Ocean Islands." Research in African Literatures - Volume 33, Number 3, Fall 2002, pp. 182-199. Indiana University Press.
Excerpt:
A poor man goes to the seaside and takes a fishing boat (pirog). For a week he fishes. Nothing. He rows out to a little rock (lilot), where he catches the Queen of the Sea. He is about to strike her when she says, "Lift your eyes, look at God (Bondyé). I'll give you a goat. You won't have to come to the sea any more. You'll say, 'By the virtue of the goat the queen of the sea gave me, I want to see everything I need!'" On the way home he is intercepted by his komer (godmother of his son). Knowing he has no such thing as a goat, she takes him a little food, invites him to her house, and while he's asleep swaps his goat for one of hers.
At home, when he tries out the queen's formula, the goat defecates in the children's bed. He decides to go back to the queen of the sea and kill her. This time she says she'll give him a little snuffbox; he is to repeat the same formula. Again the komer intervenes, giving him coffee and taking him home. She swaps snuffboxes.
At home he says the formula; bees come out and sting the children. He says, "Tonight I'm sleeping at the seaside." At 5:30 A.M. he takes the boat to the island, he fishes till 6:30 P.M., and he's about to strike the queen until she says, "This is the last time you're coming here. Today I'm going to give you a cane/walking-stick (rotin)," and the same formula. Again the komer intervenes, taking him home and giving him food and drink. While he's asleep, she tells her daughter to swap sticks—but the rotin hits her till she cries out. The komer tries; she too gets hit; she shakes him and says, "Get out of here!" He says to the rotin, "Do what you have to do." It hits her so hard that she confesses what she's taken.
He takes his things home and says the formula. Everything he needs comes to him, and thereafter he lives rich with his family.
"The other day, I met this guy and said...
More at:
http://muse.jhu.edu/
• The Fisherman and the Fish
(This moralistic folktale was reworked by Pushkin as a poem.)
Once upon the time lived a poor fisherman. One day he caught a golden fish. The fish talked with him in a human voice and begged him to go free. She promised to fulfill any of his wishes. He was a kind man and simply let her go free.
After hearing the story, the fisherman's wife shouted at him and sent him back to see the magic fish - she needed a new trough. The fish granted the wish, and a new trough magically appeared at their hut.
But his wife continued to scream and yell at him. She wanted a new house, then she wanted to be a noble lady, then wanted to be the Queen of the Land. Every time she sent her old husband to the shore, the golden fish fulfilled the wishes of the wicked wife.
The woman now wanted to be Empress of the Land and the Sea, and that the golden fish be her servant. The fisherman went to the shore, called the fish and when she came he explained the last wish of his wife. The gold fish disappeared without a word. The old man then went home and found his old mud hut, his poor wife, and a broken trough.
Narrative and translation: Copyright 2001. Tatyana Stonebarger. Editor: Andrew Stonebarger
• Myths - Kusu Island
Story:
There was once a Chinese fisherman who lived on the island of Singapura. His family was poor so he had to go out to sea everyday to catch fish to sell. One day, although there was a thunderstorm, he insisted on going out to sea, against his wife's advice.
The choppy waters and heavy rain made it very difficult to fish. The fisherman's little boat swayed vigorously from side to side. As he was about to throw his net into the sea, a huge wave rocked his boat, causing him to lose his balance and fall into the sea. "God, please help me!" he screamed in the water, "Who is going to take care of my wife and children?"
Just when the fisherman was about to give up, a large turtle swam slowly towards him. It was the biggest turtle he had ever seen! To his surprise, the turtle signalled to him to climb onto its back and carried him safely to a nearby island.
The Chinese fisherman soon made the island his home. He was able to live quite well, as fruits grew abundantly on the island.
One stormy day, while the fisherman was resting, he heard a loud cry. "Help! Help! I am drowning!" a man cried. Guess what the fisherman saw? The same turtle that helped him was carrying a Malay fisherman to the island!
The two men soon became good friends. They spent their time hunting for animals and fruits.
To thank the turtle for saving their lives, the two men built a Chinese temple, a Malay shrine and a huge turtle sculpture, all of which can still be found on Kusu Island, which is also known as Turtle Island.
Today, during the ninth month of the lunar calendar (usually October in the calendar we use now), many Chinese go to Kusu Island to pray to Tua Pek Kong, the deity of prosperity, at the Chinese temple.
http://library.thinkquest.org/04apr/00793/Islandtext/Island%20Facts.htm
• "The Fisherman and his Soul" by Oscar Wilde
http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/E850003-015/
Jackie B. 2/6/06
2) DeCee Cornish of Fort Worth (an amazing African American storyteller!) gave me a story, The Two Fishermen's House. It is from a tribe in southeast Africa whose name, I hope, will come to me later.
Bones:
Day Fisherman and Night Fisherman. Day Fisherman finds a nice spot and draws plans for a house in the sand. Goes home. Night Fisherman comes along, sees it, thinks the sun drew the plans and left them for him. Gathers poles for a frame; goes home. Day fisherman comes back and sees the poles, and thanks the Moon for helping him. Builds frame ;goes home. Day and night the two men build the house, each thinking his partner is the moon or sun. When the house is finished, the day fisherman moves in. That night, the night fisherman finds him in "his" house and they argue over the ownership of the house. Take case to judge. Judge listens to each's story, then says: The house does not belong to you or you; the house belongs to the land.
Mary Grace K. 1/31/11
Created 2006; last update 1/31/11
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