One day a pig came to the elephant and asked:
- Tell me, what do you need to eat to become as huge as you?
“Oh, it’s a secret,” the elephant answered good-naturedly. - Anyway, okay. If you want, I will get you this magical remedy.
He disappeared into the thicket and soon brought gbanyiga leaves from somewhere. Of course, he didn't tell the pig where he picked them.
“Every day I will give you a few of these leaves, and in the end you will become as big as me,” said the elephant.
From then on, the pig came to the elephant every day, received several magic leaves from him and devoured them. After a while she really began to grow and look like an elephant. She gained weight, her snout became longer, small fangs appeared, and her eyes and ears also began to resemble those of an elephant.
“Everything is all right!” thought the pig. “Soon I will become the same as an elephant. But I will not wander around the world uselessly! I will show everyone what it means to be a big animal!” She turned up her nose and stopped recognizing her acquaintances.
One evening the pig went into the forest to dig up some roots for dinner. She behaved as if she really was already a large and powerful beast: she stomped loudly, snorted and chomped, so that many walked around this place.
Just at that time an elephant passed by. He heard a strange noise, he stopped and asked in surprise:
- Hey, who's there in the thicket?
“The one who is here is bigger than the elephant itself,” the pig grunted in response.
- Wow! - the elephant exclaimed. “I haven’t seen an animal bigger than me in a long time.” You should at least take a look at him.
He stepped through the bushes and saw a small, ugly pig picking in the dirt.
“Well, well,” said the elephant. - It turns out that this is what you are like! I help you grow, and you... As soon as you gained a little weight, you began to pose as a big animal and even claim that you have become larger than me! For this I will no longer give you magic leaves, and you will remain as you are now for the rest of your life.
So he did.
That's why a pig's snout is elongated, and when it eats, it marks time like an elephant.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru