A wife warns her husband against killing whatever animal he finds in the forest. One day he kills a big bird and takes it home. He cautions his two daughters against touching it, but one daughter cuts off its head and cooks it. Though dead, the bird sings throughout the process. When the daughter eats the cooked bird, she turns into a monster bird and starts killing all the animals in the yard, then turns on her sister. The sister runs for life, singing about the danger she is in. The parents finally hear her and come down from the forest to investigate.