Ula the lizard was tired of lying in the sun doing nothing and decided: “I’ll go and play.”
She took the boomerangs and started throwing them. At this time, Gala approached her and began to watch how the boomerangs were returning - after all, Ula was throwing the returning boomerangs of the bubber. These boomerangs are smaller than others, more curved, and if thrown correctly, they will return. This doesn't work with other boomerangs.
Ula was proud that the cheerful Gala was observing her art. Trying, she threw the boomerang with all her might, and it made an extra turn. Whistling in the air, the boomerang returned and, flying, hit Gala on the top of her head, completely cutting off her feathers and skin.
Gala let out a terrible croaking, croaking scream and began flying in circles, stopping every few minutes and hitting his head on the ground as if he had gone crazy.
Ula was very scared when she saw what she had done. Blood poured from Gala's head, and Ula hid in horror under a bush with bindia thorns. Gala noticed her and, without ceasing to scream horribly, rushed after her. Approaching the bush, Gala grabbed the lizard with his beak and began to roll it around the bush until the thorns wounded its skin. He then placed the lizard on his bloody head.
“Now you, Ula,” he said, “will always have thorns and stains of my blood on your skin.”
“And you,” answered Ula, hissing in pain, “will remain a bald-headed bird until I cease to be a red lizard with spines.”
You can still find under the comb of the Gala parrot a bare spot once left by Ula’s boomerang. And in the country of Gala there are reddish-brown lizards covered with spines similar to bindia spines.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru