The "mandioca" story (a Brazilian tale)
There was a girl called Mara, she was the chief tribe's daughter. She always dreamed about true love and happy marriage. One night, she slept and dreamed with a young, blond and beautiful boy who came down from the moon.
Mara fell in love, but soon the boy disappeared from her dreams. Although she was a virgin, she was pregnant. She gave birth to a baby girl, who had very pale skin and blond hair. Mara chose the name Mandi to her daughter. Mandi was adored like a goddess by the tribe, but she got sick and died.
Mara buried Mandi in an "oca" and everyday Mara kneeled on the top of Mandi's sepulture. She dropped tears from her eyes and milk from her breasts. One day a bush sprouted there. Mara dug the soil and found a lot of white roots, it had a good smell and flavour and it was white like Mandi. The tribe understood that the child came to the Earth to feed them.
"oca" is the name of Brazilian native people houses.
"mandioca" is called cassava in English.
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The "mandioca" story (a Brazilian tale)
There was a girl called Mara. She was the chief tribe's chief's daughter. She always dreamed about true love and happy marriage. One night, she slept and dreamed with a beautiful, young, blond and beautiful boy who came down from the moon.
Mara fell in love, but soon the boy disappeared from her dreams. Although she was a virgin, she was pregnant. She gave birth to a baby girl, who had very pale skin and blond hair. Mara chose the name Mandi to for her daughter (Or better, [Mara chose to name her daughter Mandi] . Mandi was adored like a goddess by the tribe, but she got sick and died.
Mara buried Mandi in an "oca" and everyday Mara kneeled on the top of Mandi's sepulture (a very formal word. Better: Grave). She dropped tears Tears fell from her eyes and milk from her breasts (Very good!). One day a bush sprouted there. Mara dug the soil and found a lot of white roots. They had (roots = plural) had a good smell and flavour and it was were white like Mandi. The tribe understood that the child came had come to the Earth to feed them.
"oca" is the name of Brazilian native people houses.
"mandioca" is called cassava in English.
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The "mandioca" story (a Brazilian tale)
There was a girl called Mara, she was the chief of the tribe's daughter. She always dreamed about True Love and happy marriage. One night she slept and dreamed of a young, blond and beautiful boy who came down from the Moon.
Mara fell in love with him, but soon he disappeared from her dreams. Although she was untouched, she was pregnant. She gave birth to a baby girl, who had very pale skin and blonde hair. Mara chose the name "Mandi" for her daughter. Mandi was adored like a goddess by the tribe, but she became sick and died.
Mara buried Mandi in an "oca" and every day Mara kneeled on the top of Mandi's sepulcure and tears dropped from her eyes and milk from her breasts. One day a bush sprouted there. Mara dug the soil and found a lot of white roots. It had a good smell and flavour and it was white like Mandi. The tribe understood that the child had come to Earth to feed them.
"oca" is the name of Brazilian native people houses.
"mandioca" is called cassava in English.
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