MALAYSIAN FOLKTALE

Sang Kancil and Sang Buaya is one of my evergreen favourite. I still remember when I was small, my teacher in school used to tell me stories on folktales from Malaysia and other continents. I will be very happy because the animals in the story will talk and they have their own tricks to make the other animal believe in what they do.

This story is about a mouse deer who act as Sang Kancil plays a trick over a crocodile who is Sang Buaya. Actually, Sang Kancil wants to cross the river in order to get some food. So, it does not know how to cross. As a result, Sang Kancil asks Sang Buaya and other crocodiles to queue so that it Sang Kancil can count the crocodiles in that particular river. The crocodiles without hesitation queue in the river. They did not realize the Sang Kancil is playing a trick on them.

Actually, Sang Kancil wants these crocodiles blindly follow its instructions. Sang Kancil, started counting these crocodiles and managed to cross the river.  At last, this Sang Kancil fulfill its need by making these crocodiles as a tool to cross the river.

So the moral of the story is do not believe a stranger.