At a village a woman was married to a man. The woman has much fondness
for food consisting of fowls' flesh. The woman having stolen the fowls,
without the man's knowing it eats [them] in the night when the man
has gone to sleep. When she was eating every day in this manner,
the man perceived it one day.
After that, the man through the necessity for catching this theft,
one day said to the woman at night, "Bolan, I cannot [bear] in the
cold. Go to the place where the bundles of firewood are, and bring a
little firewood." Then the woman says, "Ane! Appa! In this darkness
I cannot go through fear." After that, the man, not saying it again,
remained without doing anything.
On the following day, also, the man told her in the very same
manner. On that day, also, this woman said, "Ane! Appa! I cannot go
alone." On both these days he was unable to catch the woman's theft.
In the night of the following day the man lay down, and in the manner
as though asleep the man began to snore. On that day, too, having said
[to herself], "The man has gone to sleep," the woman arose and went
for fowl stealing. The man having allowed the woman to go, and having
arisen also, began to go behind her.
On that day a man of the village having died had been cremated
also. The woman went to a village near the heap of fire-charcoal (the
remains of the funeral pyre), and stealing a fowl from a house, came
near that charcoal fire at the place of cremation (sohon), and having
put the fowl upon the charcoal, roasted it. When she was eating the
meat that man, having been hidden, threw a stone [at her]. When it
struck her the woman says, "What are you throwing stones for?" [65]
Having said, "Here. The demon-offering for ye; take that," she throws
down a fowl bone.
The man gathers the bone which she throws. The man again throws a
stone. Having spoken in that very manner she throws away a bone;
that also the man gathers. The man again throws a stone. In this
very manner, the man having thrown stones, collected seven or eight
bones. [After] collecting them he came home before the woman, and
lay down.
The woman having eaten the flesh and having finished, came back, and
prepared to sleep. Then the man having gone to sleep [apparently],
and as through arising having broken up his bodily reluctance [to
get up], arose, and said, "Bolan, I cannot [bear] in the cold; bring
a bundle of firewood from the place where the bundles of firewood are."