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Hazar-Marya accidentally charging at an enemy army with uprooted bamboo stalks in this Maharashtra folk tale about how to stop being lazy

Hazar-Marya and the Thousand Flies | A Folk Tale from Maharashtra

Long ago, in Rajpur, a town in Maharashtra, lived a man named Hazar-Marya. People rarely called him by any other name. The nickname had stuck years ago because of one strange habit he had developed. Every day, he would leave home and kill one thousand flies. That was all he did. He had no job, Read more…

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