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A tiny islet in the middle of Ba Be Lakes is the source of a local legend. The Tay people believe that what is a lake today was once farmland, and in the middle was a village called Nam Mau. One day, the Nam Mau residents found a buffalo wandering in the nearby forest. They caught it, butchered it and shared the meat. However, they didn't share any with a certain lonely old widow. Unfortunately for the villagers, this wasn't Just any old buffalo. It belonged to the river ghost When the buffalo failed to return home, the ghost went TO the village disguised as a beggar. He asked the villagers for something to eat, but they refused to share their buffalo buffet and ran the poor beggar off. Only the widow was kind to him and gave him some food and a place to stay for the night. That night the beggar told the widow to take some rice husks and sprinkle them on the ground around her house. Later in the evening, it started to rain, and then a flood came. The villagers all drowned, the flood wased away their homes and farms, thus creating Ba Be Lakes. Only the widow's house remained it's now Po Gia Mai (Widow's Island). |
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