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Little_Somerled t1_ixgzfxa wrote

Nice variation on the Mexican folk tale: https://www.deccanherald.com/amp/content/227678/a-letter-god-folktale-mexico.html

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FalconPhantom t1_ixh8q3v wrote

Didn't expect to see a link to Deccan Herald here.

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rest_in_war t1_ixhhzd7 wrote

The Mexican farmer story is actually in English Textbooks in India for the 10th grade

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Little_Somerled t1_ixhmu3i wrote

I did not knew that (I'm Dutch), but I remembered hearing such a story many years ago. After a search I found this story in the Deccan Herald (I don't know that newspaper by the way).

Apparently the original story was written by the writer Gregorio Lopez (1895-1966). It is about a poor campesino (smallholder) called Lencho who lost his crops in a hail storm.

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