Myths and Stories

I like Myths and stories. The other day I was reading the magazine Teenager and I came across with few interesting myths or stories. I wish to put them down.

"From Pain comes poetry" (The idea of a heart-break and inspiration for poetry)

Valmiki once saw a hunter shoot one of a pair of love-birds. The survivor bird wailed around its beloved, circled around it a thousand times, and finally dashed against the ground to kill itself. Valmiki who saw this cursed the heartless hunter and the curse took the form of a verse. Thus was born the first poetry. As Valmiki said, "From pain comes poetry."

Story of Tobacco.

Tambaku, the daughter of a tribal chieftain whom no man wanted to marry despite the bridal price her father was willing to pay. she was too ugly! So she killed herself and the gods decreed that she would be born as the tobacco plant that every man who crave to put in his mouth. Thus, they would always want her and she would eventually kill them.

I will add on to it later.......