Throwing You Back: The Story Every Malaysian Should Know
Happy Throw Back Thursday! Spend the next 6 minutes and 4 seconds of your life reliving your childhood with the story of Sang Kancil and the Crocodiles. Can you pinpoint moments in your life in which you've outwitted someone seemingly tougher than you are? Kudos to you!
By Melody Oei — 30 May 2013, 06:39 PM — Updated about 11 years ago
I'm (or was) a Malaysian kid but never knew. What's the story about?
A weak and small yet cunning figure, the Sang Kancil (mouse deer) uses its intelligent advantage to triumph over beings more powerful than itself. The protagonist of the story is the Kancil, a smart and sly mouse deer. He can fool the another animals to escape from trouble.
This is the story of "Sang Kancil and the Crocodiles"
One day, Kancil wants to cross a river. But the river is full of hungry crocodiles. The crocodiles will eat Kancil if he crosses the river. Eventually, Kancil has an idea. He said to the crocodiles," If you want to eat me, you must queue and make a row!"
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"Why must we do that?" replys one of the crocodile. "I want to test your toughness. I don't want to be eaten by weak crocodiles!" said Kancil. Taunted by Kancil's words, the crocodiles follow his order and make a row of crocodiles.
enricophil.itKancil quickly hops from on crocodile to another until he reaches the other side of the river, leaving the angry crocodiles far behind.
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Throwing you back on a Thursday
The children story of the Sang Kancil behind the Malaysian stamps were released on the 27th of June 2007.
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