Oral Narrative in Afghanistan by Margaret A. Mills

Author:Margaret A. Mills [Mills, Margaret A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Regional Studies
ISBN: 9781000094336
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-09-17T01:29:30+00:00

Text C

Title: Mār Čučeh [The Snake Chick]

Narrator: Mādar Zāher

Recorded: 11 Sept. 1975

Cassette # E75A - E75B

C.1 [MM: Please go ahead. What will you tell about?]

C.2 The story of Mār Čučeh. [MM: Mār Čučeh.] Yeah. The story of Mār Čučeh. [MM: Please. The one you learned from Adī?] Yes. From Adī.

C.3 There was this old man, and an old woman. [Māhgol: Nooo - it was an old woman and a boy.] Shut up! Oh, her husband died, and so she and her son were left, like that. There was and there was, there is no one better than God, there were an old man and an old woman. This old man and old woman had one son; after some days and some while passed, this poor old man died. The old woman and this boy remained.

C.4 They remained, and some days passed. This little boy had a cow, and he would bring hay for his little cow, and feed it. His mother would milk it, and they would sell the milk, or the butter, and they made their living. They lived.

C.5 After some days this little boy went to the plain to cut hay, and as he went, he noticed a fīš, fīš, fīš like a pressure cooker. Just like that. This boy said, looking this way and that way, he saw there was something, like a snake, but big, like a ().1 It came near, coming toward him, and this boy can’t run or cry out. There’s no one out on this plain. Then he said, “Hey, Boy, what are you doing here?”

C.6 “I have a little cow, and I’m cutting hay for it.”

C.7 “Whom else do you have?”

C.8 “I have an old mother.”

C.9 “Will your old mother take a husband?”

C.10 “How do I know?”

C.11 “All right. Go today. Tell her. If she’ll marry, come tomorrow and bring me word.”

1/jowā/ - untraceable.

C.12 This poor boy said “All right.” He tied up his load of hay, and put it on his back, brought it home, and gave it to the cow and the cow ate, but to his mother, nothing. He said, “How can I ask my mother, ‘Do you want a husband, or not?’ ”

C.13 The next morning ca- oh, yeah. It escaped his mind, then. [MM: Oh.] As he came, that morning as he came, when he got close to that plain, the thought came back to the boy. He said, “To dust with itl I won’t go to these fallow lands, I’ll go to those other fallow lands, that other direction.”

C.14 So he went in another direction, and he heard a fīš, fīš. As soon as this boy heard that fīš, fīš sound, his color fled and his body started shaking, and when he looked, he saw that aufī standing there. He said, “Hey, Boy! Did you tell your mother?”

C.15 “Yes.”

C.16 “What did she say? Did she say, ‘I’ll marry’?”

C.17 He said, “She didn’t say anything.”

C.18 “Oho! You didn’t tell your mother! You’d better realize that anywhere you go on land, to heaven, or on earth, I’ll find you.

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