Story of the Foolish Head-Man

Start your acquaintance with enigmatic Asian world with “Tibetan Folk Tales”! We present you the corpus of legends, reflected the wisdom of one of the oldest cultures. Many of these tales have a sacred core as they tell us of the creation of the world, the origin of various natural forces, of the afterlife as Tibetans see it according to their Buddhist-driven beliefs.
“Story of the Foolish Head-Man” is a short story about the foolish youth, who is a son of a head-man ruled over the two village. Also the young man has a very wise wife. After father’s death the idiot takes his place. His wife furtively helps him with the wise advices to maintain the reputation of the father, and the idiot has the fame of the wiseman, but one occurrence turns him again into a foolish man and restores the truth.
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