https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/37070/archive/files/eaab156a1c55604000be3d9b5e84611c.pdf?Expires=1779926400&Signature=JU7lCvG9s1NmCs-%7EZ3kQk9SYqWKr9PHXqB6t4G4U9QEqf0mYTiCeX4xf1rxzRVeM3gfjnHup2irzYbQ0ZcjABWM5fgg-dFJQZpWWM9S2333j4n17GZT4AtCPuy%7EFKPV7cv4XK-%7Eh-3gf7gQwW%7EnPz-C42QJnegTtw2V-QXr6q0ZBQQ1fsWlK3Qbvpa1S9aVeYhfPzn4sVs8xiLTuVKTZY%7ET0XM8tqsnEgjKjww%7E%7EXX7Rx-BC%7E3wA385v0DLZWkKqPuqMgq%7E-GMCbtgOxqh2jXvAJXvYqqDJv-iyQ7EFfc7EKrl9cKoYNo1e2n1hhI3rVMzeF8ugpEoWjQP2T9hwioQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 5210d5b2c71d70391c2b72e96d65d22b PDF Text Text Lao Focus Group, story 1 R: Well, the story that you mentioned earlier, that’s one of them that I grew up with. Another one is I believe what do you call the ten . . . Moderator: Is it the—for the temple? R: No, no, no. There was a king challenging all the, you know. R: Other kingdoms? R: Yeah, the kingdoms to who can have the wealth that equals to ten mount. So they can marry the daughter—I mean, the princess. That always been stuck in my head and of course, some other folklores or ghost stories that always scared me, but it’s also funny too. Moderator: Okay. R: But that particular one. Moderator: So what’s the name of that one? R: I’m not sure. This is an old one, so I would have to ask the older generation. . . . Yes. The king challenging all the warriors and whatnot, you know, he’s dying and he’s in need of—I mean, the kingdom in need of another successor. Moderator: Okay. R: And so the king put a flyer or whatever, announced, saying that whoever come up here, ten mount of gold. Moderator: Mm-hmm, and is it just a mount like a mountain? R: Yeah, mountain, . . . Moderator: You know how the plane of jars where they have these big sort of vats? R: Well, in our country, we have—what do you call, the termites mound? It’s that big. So each one—there was ten of them in there, so nobody has it. So [Simeon] had an idea and he’d come up with—he went to get gold coins and place on the mound. So in the end, I mean, I’m cutting story short, but I’m pretty sure the story that—I’m spoiling the story here—the older generation can tell better. But basically, that’s what stuck in my head. Moderator: Mm-hmm. R: So Simeon, long story short here, he placed all the gold into the ten mounds and then he solved the riddle of what the king placed. So the moral of the story is, you know, he’s very creative in his idea and he won the riddles. He won the challenge. Moderator: Okay. �R: So it’s encourage, envision, motivation type of story for me and I always think of that every time I’m coming to a challenge of something. I always place that story in saying, you know, it’s not how you look at the problem. I mean, it’s not—the size of the problem, that’s what I’m trying to say. It’s how you look at it and how you handle the problem. That’s always been my . . . Moderator: You can just say it in Lao and then we’ll get it translated. R: Okay, okay, yeah. Something like that. R: Mm-hmm. Moderator: So this is one of the Simeon folktales that he grew up with and that he—is one of his favorites. Moderator: And so it’s another trickster story. How many Simeon folktales or trickster stories are there? R: Oh, hundreds. Hundreds. Moderator: So depending on which story you remember of you hear? R: Yeah. Moderator: So there’s a collection of them? R: Yeah. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Southeast Asian Folktales Book Project Collection, 2018-2019 Description An account of the resource The Southeast Asian Folktales Book Project Collection consists of materials from a collaboration between UMass Lowell faculty members and community-based organizations in the Lowell, Massachusetts, area to collect and publish folktales from four community groups: Burmese, Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese. The complete collection is available on this site. -------------------------- SEADA would like to thank the following individuals for their work in making this collection available online: Monita Chea. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Southeast Asian Folktales Book Project Collection, 2018-2019. UML 24. Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA. Relation A related resource The collection finding aid, https://libguides.uml.edu/uml24. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The transcript of a meeting to share Lao stories, [2018] Subject The topic of the resource Folk literature, Southeast Asian Tales--Southeast Asia Description An account of the resource The transcript of a Lao focus group meeting where a story was shared for potential inclusion in the Southeast Asian Folktale book. The story shared was about a king challenging all warriors and whatnot for a future successor to marry the princess. 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Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Lao Focus Group, story 1.pdf Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Lowell, Massachusetts 2010-2019 Documents Laotians