An old hunter shoots a bird without knowing that it is god’s bird. As he sits down to remove the bird’s feathers, it begins to sing, giving him instructions about how to prepare it to cook. The old man is Read More...
A child adopts a baby snake and raises it. One day the parents are working in the forest when they hear the child singing. The mother finds this strange and says that the snake must be swallowing their child. They Read More...
A girl takes her younger sister to fetch wood in the forest, against her mother’s advice. The younger sister falls into a hole and is swallowed by a snake. The elder sister sings to the younger sister, who sings back Read More...
An old cannibal who eats children, is defeated by a little girl who sings as he eats her and whose bones come back to life after being shaken. Read More...
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 Read More...
A cat and a mouse set up home together. They hide a pot of butter in a church for lean times. But the cat pretends to be going away to be godmother on three occasions, when in fact she is Read More...
Two sea captains talk about the type of woman they’d like to marry. One says he would like to marry a poor girl and his friend mocks him. It transpires that he does marry a poor girl, whom he leaves Read More...
Mother Rat gives birth to 5 little rats and Papa Rat waits for them to open their eyes to educate them. He tells them to eat everything in their way and to wreak as much havoc as they can wherever Read More...
A sick woman sends for the moon to heal her. The moon comes, but she cannot heal the woman by herself as she is cold. So she goes to the sun. The sun says he can’t come at night. The Read More...