The elder python sister was the wife of the kory bustard.
Cory took a python as his wife, and the jackal was the python's younger sister.
Both sisters went together to the lake, to the spring, and the jackal sister said:
- Climb this tree. Let's eat the nga fruits that hang here.
And so the python sister climbed the tree, rose to the top, and the thin branches broke off under her weight. She fell into a spring.
Then the jackal sister said:
- Yeah! Now I will go and take her husband from her.
And the python sister remained at the bottom of the spring, she just lay there.
The jackal sister picked up the python sister's things, clothes and jewelry, and put them on herself. She put everything on herself, trying it on this way and that. By evening she returned to the measles camp. The jackal sister entered the python sister's hut and sat down there.
Soon the python sister's husband returned home.
- Where is my wife? - he asked himself. -Who is sitting here instead of her? Why can't I see my wife today, now that I'm back home? Where did my wife go today? What's happened?
It was getting dark. Everyone was sitting around and talking. When it was completely dark, Kori took the arrows and stuck them in the sand. He stuck them in with the tips facing up. And when the jackal sister went to bed, she lay down on them and died. When dawn broke, the husband got up and left. He turned into a kori bustard. And the jackal sister became a jackal.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru