THE STORY OF THREE WONDERFUL BEGGARS - A Serbian Fairy tale

Book excerpt: ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 154 ÿ In this 154th story in the Baba Indaba?s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Serbian fairy tale about The Tale of Three Wonderful Beggars. Mark the Rich could not stand being around poor people. One evening three beggars knock on his door and ask for some food and shelter. He drives them off but his daughter convinces him to allow them to stay. But these are not ordinary beggars! They are overheard talking amongst themselves about the peasant Ivan who lives in the next village. His wife had just given birth to his seventh son. They say that they will make it so that the seventh son, named Vassily, will inherit all of Mark the Rich?s fortune. Mark finds out and things start to happen.??. Download and read this story to find out exactly what happened to Mark the Rich and Vassily the Brave. ÿ INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES ÿ Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story. HINT - use Google maps. ÿ Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories". ÿ It is believed that folklore and tales are believed to have originated in India and made their way overland along the Silk and Spice routes and through the Middle East and Central Asia before arriving in Europe. Even so, this does not cover all folklore from all four corners of the world. Indeed folklore, legends and myths from Africa, Australia, Polynesia, and some from Asia too, can be altogether quite different and seem to have originated on the whole from separate reservoirs of lore, legend and culture.