A folktale is a make -believe story that people have told and retold for many years. Long ago, people made up folktales to tell how something came to be. This folktale comes from a country called Peru.
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One day ,a magic puma from the hills, went down into the jungle. The other animals made fun of him. They all had beautiful spots and markings. But the puma had none.
The puma left. He traveled for days. At the top of the mountains, he saw a tree with a bird's nest in it. When Puma grabbed an egg to eat, Father Bird came flying up. He grabbed Puma.
"Iwillbreakyouinpieces", said Father Bird. Up, up, up he flew with Puma. When Father Bird was very high up, he dropped the puma.
Puma came falling down. He said the magic words to save himself. "Sticks, stones, change my bones", he said. Puma was at once changed into a log. He landed at the side of the mountain.
Lucas, the water carrier, was coming up the road. Lucas had a hole in his fence. He had been looking for just such a log, to fill it. Lucas took the log home and stuck it in his fence.
Puma waited for night to come. When everyone was asleep, he said the magic words. "Sticks, stones, change my bones", he said. He turned himself back into puma again.
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Then he went around to all the farms. He ate all the chickens. In the morning, he changed himself into a log again.
All the farmers found their chickens missing. They were very angry. " I will make a trap to catch the robber ", said Lucas. He went to the waterfalls for some sticks. Ad he looked for the sticks , he heard a voice.
"Help me. I am caught under a stone", said a frog. Lucas run free to help it. "Lucas", said the frog,"the log in your fence is not really a log. It is a magic puma. It changes itself into a puma at night. Then it eats all the chickens. I have seen it".
"So!"Lucas said. "If that is how it is, then I know what to do". Lucas went back home. He put some water in a big pot, as if he were making soup. When the water was very, very hot, he grabbed the log. He threw it into the water.
"Oh!"Puma cried, Sticks,stones,change my bones!" He changed himself into a puma again. Then jumped out of the pot. The hot water had turned his fur to gold.
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And the fire had left beautiful markings on his fur. Puma ran to the jungle.
The other animals came around him to look at his gold color and beautiful spots. And, because he looked so changed, they gave him a new name. They called him OTORONGO.
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