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**Title:** Manchadi (Volume 4) - A Collection of Folk Stories and Songs
**Content Overview:**
1. **Introduction**: Host welcomes audience to the fourth volume of Manchadi, featuring four folk stories and three songs.
2. **Segment 1**:
* **Story**: A goat outsmarts a lion with the help of a jackal, saving itself from being eaten. (Origin: Tamil)
* **Song**: "Ku Kooo Ku Kooo" - a traditional song about a train.
3. **Segment 2**:
* **Story**: A pious man is saved from a tiger by a cunning jackal, who solves a puzzle to set the man free. (Origin: Northern States)
4. **Segment 3**:
* **Song & Story**: "Ball of Mud and Dry Old Leaf" - a tale of friendship between two unlikely companions on a pilgrimage to Kasi.
5. **Segment 4**:
* **Story**: A priest tricks a tiger into a cage, saving himself from being eaten, under the guise of arranging the tiger's marriage. (Origin: North Eastern States)
6. **Segment 5**:
* **Song**: A tale about a tailor who befriends an elephant, but eventually tricks it with a needle.
7. **Segment 6**:
* **Story**: "Undan and Undi" - a couple outsmarts a leopard who helps them in exchange for rice cakes, but ultimately falls into a well. (Origin: Kerala)
8. **Conclusion**: Host bids farewell, promising to return with more exciting stories and songs.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text, excluding opinions, with each fact numbered and in short sentences:
**Story 1: The Goat and the Lion**
1. A goat from a village lost its way and entered a forest.
2. A lion, who owned a cave in the forest, encountered the goat.
3. The goat tricked the lion, claiming to be the "emperor of all forests".
4. A jackal witnessed the encounter and later revealed the truth to the lion.
5. The lion and jackal teamed up to confront the goat, but the goat tricked them again.
**Song 1: The Train**
6. The song "Ku kooo ku kooo" is an old song sung by parents when they were children.
**Story 2: The Pious Man and the Tiger**
7. A pious man saved a tiger from a hunter's trap.
8. The tiger wanted to eat the man, but a cunning savior (a jackal) intervened.
9. The jackal helped the man by reenacting the scene of the rescue, revealing the tiger's deception.
**Song 2: Ball of Mud and Dry Leaf**
10. "Ball of Mud and Dry Leaf" is a song about two friends on a pilgrimage to Kasi.
**Story 3: The Tiger's Marriage**
11. A priest encountered a tiger in a forest and tricked the tiger into wanting to get married.
12. The priest set a trap, and the tiger fell into a cage, thinking it was a marriage ceremony.
13. The tiger eventually married another tiger, with the priest's unintentional help.
**Song 3: The Elephant and the Tailor**
14. A song tells the story of a tailor who befriended an elephant and tricked it with a needle.
**Story 4: Undan, Undi, and the Leopard**
15. Undan and Undi, a short couple, made rice cakes with the help of a leopard.
16. The leopard was promised 10 rice cakes in exchange for its help.
17. Undan and Undi tried to deceive the leopard, but ultimately, all three fell into a well they had set a trap for the leopard.
**Miscellaneous**
18. This is the fourth volume of "Manchadi".
19. The content includes four folk stories and three songs.
20. The stories and songs are from various regions, including Tamil, northern states, northeastern states, and Kerala.