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General Category => Hmong Culture & History => Hmong Stories => Topic started by: dlabtsi_os on September 19, 2013, 11:22:50 PM

Title: What are some Hmong Bed-Time Story you have heard before?
Post by: dlabtsi_os on September 19, 2013, 11:22:50 PM
I heard many in my childhood. Did you have any memories of specific parts of the story you remember?

-Sis Yis - Founder of Shaman
-Nuj Nplhaib- The tiger cub
-Orphan and three animals- Becoming blind in the cave and listen where the wealth is hidden.
-Woodcutter, the wife and his chicken- The wife kills the husband's precious chicken.
-Orphan who took the bride to the sky- The Frog that swallows the pond.
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Post by: DRTYLUVN on October 24, 2013, 03:57:28 PM
please tell us the stories that you've heard :)
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Post by: night912 on November 10, 2013, 02:20:15 AM
There are many stories about the orphan boy.
Title: Re: What are some Hmong Bed-Time Story you have heard before?
Post by: dlabtsi_os on December 05, 2013, 03:11:37 PM
There are many stories about the orphan boy.

I think one of the popular orphan story is the one where the orphan go to a place where there were a bear, wild cat, and tiger talk having a secret meeting. There the three reveals the location of gold. The orphan took the gold and became wealthy.

Title: Re: What are some Hmong Bed-Time Story you have heard before?
Post by: Wi_sweetguy on December 05, 2013, 03:57:24 PM
There is the Zaj Daav story.
Me nqoob -class story, im sure most you haven't heard of this story before
Niam tiab thiab tiab hlaub tsis hlub younger brother then the younger brother gets money from pretending to be dead.

More..+++
Title: Re: What are some Hmong Bed-Time Story you have heard before?
Post by: Lady_Fallin on December 22, 2013, 05:04:38 PM
1. how the zaj lost its tail
2. the poor orhpan girl whose mother takes various forms to still help her. I think her mom turned into a cow, a tree, etc. (nkauj no? and nu shee long?)
3. the story of the bride who told her husband not to open the door for 7 days after their wedding to prevent something bad, but he didn't so she was kidnapped. O_O
Title: Re: What are some Hmong Bed-Time Story you have heard before?
Post by: dlabtsi_os on December 23, 2013, 03:31:04 AM
I remember the story about a husband died and was bury outside/inside (depending which version you were told) and becomes a tiger to eat the wife and children. In some version the tiger ate one of his children, in others he didn't. And of course the husband was killed by a gun when he start counting the star in the water.

There is a similar version about the tiger and husband. In this version the tiger kills the husband when he was hunting. The tiger took the form of the husband. In some version it's a tiger wearing the husband clothes. Anyway the children and wife learn about the tiger when they spotted the tiger's tail. How the tiger was kill? I recall the tiger got jab by a water buffalo horns.
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Post by: King_Kong on December 23, 2013, 09:14:14 AM
Shao, orphan, and Nkauj zua paj.
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Post by: Reporter on December 23, 2013, 07:12:34 PM
I hope you have read my mountain stories. They are all bed-time stories from the past.
Title: Re: What are some Hmong Bed-Time Story you have heard before?
Post by: Reporter on December 23, 2013, 07:18:16 PM
Nruag Zab, Nkauj Nog (Cincerella), Nuj Nplaib, and Siv Yis. Oh, and the 7 sisters.

Hmong has a Cinderella? ;D ;D
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Post by: Reporter on December 23, 2013, 08:58:18 PM
yes.. haven't you heard? Nkuaj Nog or however you spell it.

We Hmong are too quick to adopt other culture's makings. lol
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Post by: dlabtsi_os on December 24, 2013, 04:51:39 PM
yes.. haven't you heard? Nkuaj Nog or however you spell it.

No only the Lakorn Nkauj Nog.
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Post by: Reporter on December 25, 2013, 12:51:06 PM
I doubt it... my mom told me this story and I'm sure it was her mother that told her.

Cinderella wasn't created in just 70 years ago. :2funny:
Title: Re: What are some Hmong Bed-Time Story you have heard before?
Post by: hnubqub on January 13, 2014, 11:09:04 PM
1 Sis Yis - Founder of Shaman

2 Nuj Nplhaib- The tiger cub

3 Orphan and three animals- Becoming blind in the cave and listen where the wealth is hidden.

4 Woodcutter, the wife and his chicken- The wife kills the husband's precious chicken.

5 Orphan who took the bride to the sky- The Frog that swallows the pond.

6 There is the Zaj Daav story.

7 Me nqoob -class story, im sure most you haven't heard of this story before

8 Niam tiab thiab tiab hlaub tsis hlub younger brother then the younger brother gets money from pretending to be dead.

9 how the zaj lost its tail

10 the poor orhpan girl whose mother takes various forms to still help her. I think her mom turned into a cow, a tree, etc. (nkauj no? and nu shee long?)

11 the story of the bride who told her husband not to open the door for 7 days after their wedding to prevent something bad, but he didn't so she was kidnapped. O_O


please add on.. (and if someone could reply&quote this i'd appreciate it.)
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Post by: Reporter on January 14, 2014, 12:16:23 AM
Txiv Nraug Ntsuag in several versions.
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Post by: yuknowthat on January 14, 2014, 06:46:48 AM
Nuj Si loob Thiab Ntxawv
Yob Nraug Ntsuag
Zab dag Txiv Huab Tais
Title: Re: What are some Hmong Bed-Time Story you have heard before?
Post by: Wi_sweetguy on March 26, 2014, 06:35:20 PM
Did anyone mention Nuj Toog and Nuj Siy Looj thiaj Muam Nkauj See
Title: Re: What are some Hmong Bed-Time Story you have heard before?
Post by: Visualmon on December 14, 2014, 11:30:13 PM
Can't remember the story that my mother used to tell for me and my siblings. I'll ask her whenever I have time. Have patience yo!  8)
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Post by: dlabtsi_os on December 16, 2014, 01:28:24 AM
Nuj Si loob Thiab Ntxawv
Yob Nraug Ntsuag
Zab dag Txiv Huab Tais

I swear Nuj Si Loob Haab Ntxawv is Hmong version of Fuxi and Nuwa.

Can't remember the story that my mother used to tell for me and my siblings. I'll ask her whenever I have time. Have patience yo!  8)

Okay.
Title: Re: What are some Hmong Bed-Time Story you have heard before?
Post by: Visualmon on January 09, 2015, 03:55:52 PM
Since Hmongsters from FB mentioned the story of Yer and the Tiger, I remember that story now. My mother's story somehow similar to it.

Other Hmong Folktales my mother used to tell from different perspectives:
Title: Re: What are some Hmong Bed-Time Story you have heard before?
Post by: Believe_N_Me on January 11, 2015, 03:12:52 PM
Different versions of maum plis (Cinderella), and tub ntsuag (orphan boy) are the ones that come to mind.
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Post by: mronline on January 17, 2015, 04:26:09 PM
fuab tais liab.
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Post by: VillainousHero on April 01, 2015, 11:05:03 PM
Hmong has a Cinderella? ;D ;D

Yes, Hmong has a Cinderalla sort of, but she doesn't have glass slippers nor went to the ball and ran away at midnight - heck we didn't have clocks.  It's just about her struggles against some mean step-mother and step-sisters.  However cuz she's been nothing but a dutiful and faithful daughter in law, that somehow her spiritual mom came back to help her go to prince's future bride selection. Yeah, her spiritual mom saved her a special dress in a jar or big pot, hidden in the ground under the fire pit or something like that.  So anyway when she went to the bride selection thing, she caught the favor the prince - cuz her dress was so Hmongliness  like a beautiful butterfly- LOL.