If about Situngusobenhla, then there were girls. One had as her sister a girl from a great house. When they went in a crowd of their girls to collect benkhle, they went picking, leaving it along the way. They reached the point where they were supposed to return. And her sister of the great house said, she said, that she was not loved by her father; he loves the child from Maloto's house. They turned back. They walked and collected, but the one who was loved by her father fell behind, she forgot. When they were on a hill, she remembered her benhle.
She asked each girl in vain: help me, take me to my benhle. - They all refused her
the girl and her sisters: her sister dissuaded them. And she returned alone. She walked and walked and met an ogre sitting in the house where her benhle were. When she met him, she found that he was looking for grubs and eating them. “He called her and said: come in, help me search.” She came in, she found and gave him the larvae, and he ate.
The rest of the girls came home and said: that girl Si-tuyagusobenhle has reached maturity. An ox was slaughtered; the whole tribe gathered for the slaughter, for the chief’s daughter had reached maturity. The ogre put her in a bag; and she followed the ogre, he went to the house of Situngusobenhle. They met two of her brothers, some with calves, others with bulls, eating meat. - The cannibal said: cut off my meat. They cut off the cannibal. “He said: I’ll tell you about the great man’s bag.”
They gave it to him and he ate. “They said: hit the bag, you said you would tell us about it.” And he hit him. - And the girl Situngusobenhle, who was inside the bag, said: what will I say? I was abandoned by my father's children, they refused to take me to collect my benhle. The boys heard her brothers and recognized her by her voice; They said: Conduct him to our father, so that he can eat good meat at our father’s house. And they accompanied him to Situngusobenhle's house.
And he came to her people. Situngusobenhle's mother cut off the ogre's meat; he ate. They said: hit the great man's bag. And the ogre hit it. The child said: what will I say? I was abandoned by my father's children. - Her mother said: let them tell the leader her father. - Father appeared and said: let him hit the bag: he heard her say: what will I say? I was abandoned by my father's children. And her father said: Give him a pumpkin, let him draw water. He pierced the jug with a spear. And the cannibal went to get water. He hesitated while collecting water; the pumpkin was leaking. They collected scorpions, snakes, and dogs and put them in a bag; child, the girl Situngusobenhle was pulled out by her father. All the beasts, all that bite, were laid down
into the ogre's bag. - The cannibal came and said: why did you give me a holey pumpkin? The leader said, he damaged it, he said: it was given by a great woman. How come she didn’t find you an undamaged, strong pumpkin?
And the cannibal asked: is my bag there? - They answered: it is in the same place where you put it. And the ogre picked him up; he was gifted with meat and went home, went home to his village. He came and put his bag outside and ordered: let them make a fire, let them prepare a pot. The pot was boiling. He sent his child, he ordered him to bring a bag. The child was bitten and abandoned. He sent another again; it went and when it grabbed him, it was bitten; it abandoned him. The animals that were inside the bag bit the cannibal's children. “He told his children: don’t come into the house here.” “He ordered the great woman to take it.” She was bitten. “She said: they are right, the children said, your bag bites.” - And the cannibal said: close me inside, plug up the small holes too. And they closed, they left. He took the bag himself. They bit him all the time. He released it, he shook it. All the animals placed inside jumped out. He Yelled. He was screaming inside, he was cramped, he couldn’t go anywhere. After some time they opened it, it was finished and only bones remained. He got out, ran, headed towards the clay, reaching it, he fell on his head. The bees entered his bones, he was already a tree!
At home, the chief called Situngusobenhle, he ordered her to come out. But the girls refused. He came to the hut where the ceremony was taking place. He found another girl being removed with branches and said to be Situngusobenhle. He called them all and every one of them came out. He took out a log, grabbed a mower and chopped up all the girls.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru