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The Story of Baucis and PhilemonColor the pictures. Cut out the circles. Glue a craft stick to the back of each

circle. Retell the story with your puppets.

One day Zeus and his son, Hermes, went to visit a village in ancient Greece to see how well thepeople were behaving. When they asked for shelter they were thrown out. When they askedfor food they had dogs set upon them. But one elderly couple, Philemon and his wife Baucis,gave them both food and shelter. Zeus destroyed the village by flooding it, but Baucis and

Philemon's tiny hovel was saved and turned into a Greek temple. Baucis and Philemon tendedthe temple until they died of old age. He was turned into an oak and she became a linden

tree, their branches entwined together forever.

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