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The Clever Pottala

This story is set in South Sulawesi, the main characters in this story are a peasant called Pottala and a Headman. This story is about a poor peasant called Pottala who borrows money of a headman and when the headman comes to collect the money Pottala has to think of different ways to get more time in the end he finds a way to trick the headman into dying. There is no real moral in this story, the name Pottala gives away that the story is most likely not from Australia. This story is a folk tale because it is in the book called Folk Tales of Indonesia.