Folktales told around the world by Dorson Richard M. (Richard Mercer) 1916-

Author:Dorson, Richard M. (Richard Mercer), 1916-
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Tales, Tales Anthologies
Publisher: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press
Published: 1978-09-19T16:00:00+00:00

The Exiled Sister and Her Son

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them and went back to her house. She didn't know that there was something terrible back at her brother's house. She prepared herself and was ready to come back to the house again. She always visited them before she went to sleep.

Olofat took a bath and went outside to see his flower. However, when he got there he found that his flower was gone, and he was very upset. He rushed inside and asked his wife who had picked his flower. His clever wife told him that she left right after him. She explained further that since she was away for the whole day she could not possibly know what happened to the flower. She suggested that they ask his sister because she was there. However, Olofat knew that his sister could not do it. He saw her when she left, that she did not have anything with her. He was also confused because he believed his wife. He knew she was not there the whole day.

Confused by what had happened to his precious flower, he demanded his wife to help him look for the missing flower. His wife pretended to look around and then she went inside the house and took out the flower from under the baby's pillow. She took it and showed it to her husband. She explained to him that it might be his sister who did it because she was with the baby. Her sweet talk convinced her husband. He believed that his sister had done it. So he decided to kill her, no matter how precious she was to him. He had said earlier that anybody who picked the flower would be punished. Although he loved his sister, he could not possibly permit her to do this.

Olofat sharpened his knife to use in killing his sister. His knife was so sharp that if a fly sat on its edge, it would be cut in two pieces. That was how sharp his knife was. When he was finished sharpening it, he took it with him. He went down to the men's house and sat there. He waited for his sister to come.

His sister, after finishing up everything in the house, left to visit her brother and his wife. She walked to the men's house and saw that her brother was sitting there. So she dropped down on her knees and started to walk on them. But Olofat told her to stand up. He was so very angry he did not want to listen to her. He ordered her to stand up and walk to him. His sister could not do that even if she knew that he was upset. She continued to walk on her knees. Finally she was about to reach the house when Olofat rushed out and grabbed her head. He had her head in his left hand and in his right hand was the knife. He raised it up in the air and then he was about to chop her head off.

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