THE WHITE ELEPHANT KING

A long time ago, there was a narration of a poor farmer in the remote area. He had a daughter called Neang Kolyan Ney who was sixteen years old that year. She was it beautiful girl with clear skin that attracted not only the fellows in the village but also the millionaire to be in love.

One day when Neang Kolyan Ney and her friends got together and left for digging up tubers for her family’s living, Mrs. Sem, matchmaker, came to her house and asked her to get married with a millionaire from her parents. However, her parents said, “We don’t mind, but my daughter still says that she does not want husband. Therefore, you should be back and wait for my information later as long as I could convince her about this.”

As for Neang Kolyan Ney went to dig up tubers in the forest, she could not find a lot; therefore, she walked far from her friends. Suddenly, the sky darkened and seemed to rain. As tiredness and heaviness, she decided to empty the water in her bamboo flask away; however, no longer time later the sky was cleared and sun came out with shining extremely brightly that caused her extremely thirsty.

She tried to find more tubers in the forest; moreover, her thirstiness as more and more dehydrated to make her throat too dry to be patient. She dug up a half basket of tubers then she decided to find water to drink. A little time later, she found a hole of water. She was really glad, so she walked toward and guzzled the water up. She was really glad that it was salty with bitter taste and smelt stink. However, because of thirstiness, she decided to drink.

One month later, Neang Kolya Ney had felt strange in her body; she often vomited as a pregnancy. Her parents asked her about the causes and effects whether she was in love with any men. However, she denied to these; instead she told about drinking of salty with stink water from a hole. The parents completely wondered; therefore, they got together and went to see the hole. When they arrived, they saw a white elephant pissing in the hole. And then they understood that her daughter was pregnant because of elephant’s urine.

A few months later, Neang Kolyan Ney gave birth to a daughter and named Kon Ton Satra. When she was at the age of seven or eight she could not play with any children because they insulted her that the girl was born without a father. This insult made her feel absolutely ashamed. One day, she kept asking her mother about this father. By not being able to hide any more, her mother told the story in detail without any lies.

Neang Kon Ton Satra pointed to the elephant and said, “Look! That elephant is my father!” Then she knelt down to perform Sampeah (by placing her palm hands together to salute) the elephant. The elephant realized the whole causes and effects, and he carried her up to his back. After that he used incantation to cause a basket of gold magically for Neang Kon Ton Satra’s mother to support her living.

The elephant king used incantation to make a temple for Neang Kon Ton Satra. Since then, she lived in the forest and elephant king found fruit for her. Moreover, he advised her, “If I say: well, Kon Ton Satra opens the door; father perfumes your hair with flowers, perfumes the front hair (fringe), and perfumes the back hair-my daughter Kon Ton Satra.” “If you hear like this, you can hold the door open for me – your father. I do not allow you to go outside of this temple in case of preventing from any dangers,” said the white elephant king.

Talking about King Samalak Reach, he was completely gloomy because his father was assassinated by king Antry and also forced him to marry his daughter; however, King Samalak Reach did not agree. Because of too much boring, he got together with all his servants to go sightseeing in the forest.

While the king was walking in the forest, he met Neang Kon Ton Satra. Therefore, he coaxed her to be his lover.

After they had chatted about love, both of them were pleasure to make love with each other. When the white elephant king had known about this matter, he did not mind. On the contrary, he blessed and arranged marriage them as a husband and wife since then. And then he say good bye to them in order to further his making meditation at Dang Rek Mountain.

Pausing this, talking about the cruel King Antry, everyday he ordered his favorite official (Kin’s confidant) to arrest all pretty verging girls to serve for his passion, and then they all were killed. As for the princess Moha – King Antry’s daughter, who was arranged marriage with King Samalak Reach by King Antry, was unfaithful by being in a secret love with the prince Botun Vong.

As King Samalak Reach took Neang Kon Ton Satra to his kingdom and planned to arrange a wedding, but it was spread to King Antry and Neang Moha. King Antry and his daughter were completely furious; therefore, they mobilized the military forces in order to attack King Samalak Reach's kingdom without warning. Therefore, King Samalak Reach was detained in the jail.

Princess Moha ordered her soldiers to pack princess Kon Ton Satra in a bag and beat vigorously till she was unconscious. By seeing this, King Samalak Reach took out his knife and attempted to stab princess Moha to death.

Suddenly, the white elephant king appeared and prevented him by saying, “Stop! Let her back to her empire.” "Vindictiveness is always disappeared by not committing vindictiveness," said the white elephant king. Therefore, all soldiers and princess Moha ran away back to the kingdom. And then the white king elephant revived Neang Kon Ton Satra.

The white king elephant told King Samalak Reach and Neang Kon Ton Satra, “My dears, please live in our temple; it is safer because the human was too much greedy to compete for the power. “That is right father; I think so and I do not want to come to the throne too,” said King Samalak Reach.


Princess Moha went back to the temple and told her father, “King Samalak Reach betrays you as he will marry ethic minority wonman as his wife because a shite elephant helps him.” While mbrracing with pretty virgin grils, King Antry shouted loudly, “Don’t worry my daughter! I will use the magic spear to kill that elephant.” “My dear quickly mobilize the military forces in order to knock down King Samalak Reach’s empire timely,” said King Antry.

He led the army forces to surround the king Samalak Reach's Royal palace; in the mean time, the spokesman told him that king Samalak Reach was not in the royal palace, but he was in the forest. Therefore, the parade troop returned to the temple in the forest.

The royal advisers and commanders' Samalak Reach knew about the movement of king Antry's parade troop that were moving to Samalak Reach's temple; therefore, they mobilized a great amount of military forces in order to fight with King Antry's army.

King Antry receognized that King Samalak Rechs’s army was strong because of the white elephant king, thus he threw his magic spear made of his former magicians’s bone toward the white elephant king. Because of the magic spear’s power, it poked the elephant’s throat and then he fell down to the ground.

By seeing this, King Samalak Reach and Kon Ton Satra ran toward the elephant, father. “You both look after each other; I am not alive. But the king Antry and his daughter are not alive too. Now I say goodbye.” Said the white elephant king. Then he stood up with his last energy, put his trunk into his mouth and shouted loadly in the forest. After shouting, he fell down and passed away.

Meanwhile, thousands of elephants came out and ran toward the fighting field. The elephants stepped on the king Antry’s troop to death in messy piles; moreover, the king Antry and his daughter-Moha also died at that time.

After the fighting was finished, King Samalak Reach and his wife matched the body of the white elephant king to the royal palace and held ceremony. He married his wife-Kon Ton Satra; furthermore, he controlled his nation and people with peace and happiness since then.

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ELEPHANTS' TUSKS

Uncle Sam was a woodcutter. The spouses did not have even a child. Every day, Uncle Sam went out to cut firewood at mountain bases and sold it to get little income to support their living. Their income was just enough for their living.

One day, he went far away to cut firewood alone. Reaching a field near a hill, he saw a group of elephants seeking food. At that time, he saw an old elephant crying wildly alone far from the others.

He wondered, so he went closer to see the event. A pangolin was squeezing the elephant's tusks so tightly. The more the elephant struggled, the more tightly the pangolin squeezed; so the elephant cried so painfully

Note able to stand that anymore, Uncle Sam carried his knife and approached them. As soon as the pangolin saw the human, it rushed to escape away. The elephant was so pleased, so it told the man that "Thank you very much. If you hadn't helped me on time, I would indeed have been in trouble."

The elephant lowered its body down gently so that Uncle Sam could climb up to ride on its back, and then they went away happily. Many elephants acknowledged this good deed of Uncle Sam. It took them quite long time to arrive at the place where elephants lived.

The elephant used its trunk to excavate the ground quickly. Soon later, there appeared a lot of tusks in the ground. Uncle Sam asked the elephant that, "Why are there a lot of tusks like this?" "When we get old, our tusks are dislocated and then fall out. So we bury all the tusks here," replied the elephant.

After a while of conversation, the elephant picked up a pair of tusks, gave them to Uncle Sam, and said, "These are just little reward that I have~r you; please, take it for your any use." Then, Uncle Sam

returned home.

When arriving home, Uncle Sam showed the elephant tusks to his wife. When a passer-by saw and got interested in the tusks, he asked to buy the tusks from them. Because of their poor life, the spouses agreed to sell to the passer-by. Since then, they had some money to support their livir1g so they stopped going out to cut firewood, and instead changed their jobs as firewood cutters to farmers. In addition the spouses planted a lot of seedlings.

A CRUEL ELEPHANT

A long time ago, there lived a herd of elephants in Himalaya. The king of elephants was kind and popular among the elephants in the herd. In the forest, a mother bird built a nest and lived a happy life. In the nest, there were baby birds who had just hatched. One day, the mother bird knew that the elephant herd would pass through the forest, where she lived, which made her have terrible fear. The mother bird flew to the king of elephants without delay. "Oh! Elephant of the Best," she implored the king. "Please don't step on my nest. May you be kind to my little babies." "Don't worry, Little Bird," the king politely replied, "we will not hurt them." When the herd arrived at the nest, the King of elephants stood to protect the nest and ordered all the elephants to pass through, not causing any harm to the baby birds. 

Before leaving, the King reminded the mother bird of a cruel elephant who also lived in that forest. One day, when the mother bird was looking for food, she saw an elephant walking toward her nest. She flew to the elephant and implored, "My Lord! Please do not step on my nest!" "Hey, little bird," the cruel elephant shouted hoarsely, "How rude you are! I will trample any thing I find in my way." Then, the cruel elephant suddenly walked to the bird's nest and trample the little baby birds, cruelly killing all of them. The female bird was very shocked by what had happened to her babies. 

The mother bird, with bitter anger, told the cruel elephant, "Shit! Fucking cruel  elephant! I will one day take revenge for my babies' death." The cruel elephant, having heard the insult and intention, burst out laughing. "You are too small" mocked the elephant. "How can you harm me?" After that, the elephant walked away. As the time went by, the bird thought,"How can I give lesson to the unkind and cruel elephant?" She had a plan by making friendship with a crow. The mother bird tried hard and attentively to work for the crow. The crow was very pleased with the mother bird's effort. 

The crow said to the bird, "You work hard enough for me. I will be happy if I can do something for you to return the favor." When the mother bird heard this offer, she told the crow about her sad story and she requested to peck the eyes of the elephant who had killed her babies. The crow agreed to help the mother bird and set a date to look for the cruel elephant. After that, the bird continued with another plan. She went to the bees to ask them to sting both eyes of the cruel elephant. 

"No problem," The bees replied. "We will do what you want to." The mother bird thanked the bees and left. Next day, the mother bird flew to a pond filled with clear water where a frog lived. She asked the frog to jump to the top of mountain and croaked when seeing the cruel elephant passing. The frog felt doubt about the mother bird's plan, but agreed to help her because she was his friend. One day, when the cruel elephant was walking in the forest, the crow pecked both eyes of elephant until bleeding. 

Then, the bees stung the two eyes of the cruel elephant. The elephant became blind and suffered from unbearable pain. After that, the cruel elephant wandered aimlessly, without water and food. One day, the cruel elephant heard the frog croaking, "Croak! Croak! Croak! Croak!" The elephant walked toward the sound, hoping to reach a pond where he could drink water to slake his thirst.

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