the
fingers. Don’t you do it’ Pibi said. |
Picha
hurried back and did the same way as Pibi told and broke his fingers.
He thought over a while about the mistake he had committed in killing
his family members. He suspected that Tani is living with his family
members. |
One
day Picha was making a wooden plate. Tani came to him and asked
‘what are you doing’. |
‘I
am alone, so I am making a place for sleeping with ‘lyipo tagyo
bo’ Picha replied. He requested Tani to test it whether it is comfortable
to lie down. Tani tested and told him, it is not comfortable. Picha
modified it and requested Tani to test again. Tani was testing by
lying inside the vessel. Picha turned it upside down and Tani was
trapped. |
Tani
heard the sound of a playing crow. He pleaded: ‘Dear crow! dear
crow, please help me |
The
crow replied: ‘you Abotani! you shoot me with bow and arrow making
noise like ‘khakha’. Even if you ask for help, I will not’. The
crow flew away. After a while woodpecker came that way. |
‘hallo!
taring, taring please help me’ Tani requested. |
The
woodpecker made a hole in such a way that Tani could see through
with one of his eyes. It expressed its inability to do more and
it sought the help of Sun. The Sun came to the scene and with its
heat, the vessel was split into two pieces. Abotani was taken to
the Sun’s home. |
The
Sun was about to go to the field. He told Abotani ‘don’t put your
hand in the hole of the spoon stand kept above the oven. Don’t touch
the bag (tobacco bag) kept near the ceiling. Don’t take out the
mat and look into the latrine. Don’t look above the ceiling’. The
Sun went to field. Tani was very eager to see the house. He examined
the bag, it was full of scorpion. He saw the ceiling above the oven,
it was full of snakes, he looked under the mat, it was full of snakes
and scorpions. The latrine was full of lions and tigers. The ceiling
was full of forest pig. |
Tani
realized that he couldn’t stay there for a long time. When Sun returned,
in the evening, Tani expressed his desire to go back home. The Sun
arranged for his return by putting a rope down upto Tani’s house
top. |
When
Tani reached home, he saw his wife |
