Noah wonders how to get a unicorn into the ark; Giant (Og) agrees to bring him one in exchange for safety from the flood
Flood sweeps the ark off, Og hops on unicorn to swim alongside it
Noah agrees to feed Og/unicorn, Og agrees to be servant to Noah’s descendants
Rain eventually stops, Og claims he is now stronger than Noah/mortals and can eat/drink as he pleases
Noah claims that mortals will be the masters of demons/giants
Ark comes to rest, Og wishes to travel world, Noah says he’s not allowed to leave because he’s Noah’s servant, Og cries
Og begins to shrink after not eating for two days, Noah introduces him to grapes and making wine
Og sacrifices sheep, lion, monkey, and pig to the grapes/wine
When man drinks a little wine he will be as harmless as sheep
When man drinks a bit more, he will be strong as a lion
Drinks bit too much, will become beast like a pig
Drinks too much, will become foolish like a monkey
Og eventually becomes king, then tries to kill camp of Israelites
Picks up mountain to crush them; but the mountain breaks, falls on his head, and gets stuck and freaks out
Moses comes out, cuts his ankle with a sword and kills Og (that’s what he gets for breaking Noah’s pact)
King Hagag listens to priest read Bible; Priest reads that riches aren’t forever
King gets mad at hearing that; tears out pages, claiming any passages that offend him will be torn out
King goes hunting, chases a deer in forest and across a river (he strips naked and crosses river with just a sword); deer is stuck in a tree branch
Deer frees itself, runs into thicket, turns into a young man (also genie) in deerskin
Man teaches him lesson: he swims back across, takes King’s clothes to pretend to be King, and leaves with his men
Hagag meets a woodcutter, who offers to give him clothes and food in exchange for carrying sticks
Hagag claims to be King, woodcutter laughs at him, Hagag beats him and runs away
Hagag returns to palace, is turned away by guards, becomes beggar in the streets
Labors with other beggars for a while/becomes their guide (the others are blind); King offers a feast to all the beggars in the land
King sees Hagag again, Hagag has learned humility and wisdom, wishes to stay as the beggars’ guide
King recognizes Hagag has learned his lesson; King/Hagag switch back; Hagag has learned to be kind, sympathetic, and humble ruler
The Quarrel of the Cat and Dog
Cat/Dog were best friends when world began
Winter comes, they get hungry/unhappy/impatient
Cat is mad, has a terrible temper; Dog is sad and depressed
Dog believes he is stronger than Cat/can work together to survive
Cat wants to leave each other and go to the House of Adam
The two agree to part ways and never cross paths again
Cat becomes Adam’s pet; Dog is cold/hungry for three days, befriends Wolf and stays in his lair
Dog almost killed by wild animals, wanders away again (he is almost dead), comes across monkey in a tree/gets coconuts thrown at him
Befriends sheep, watches over them during night to protect them from wolves
Dog barks to scare wolves away during night; freaks out/wakes up sheep, sheep run right into getting eaten
Finds a man’s house, is fed/sleeps, alerts man to thieves in the night
Man has dog stay, turns out to be Adam’s house
Cat is furious dog is there, constantly fight
From now on, they fight like crazy as cat refuses to be friends with dog
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