۱۳۸۹ اسفند ۲۵, چهارشنبه

Stone-heart Sister-in-law[1]

There were two brothers: one, rich; the other, poor. They were living in neighborhood. Someday, the rich brother says to the poor one:” I have a grown fat sheep. Let’s kill it together.” They kill the sheep and cook its meat and eat at night. The rich brother gives a piece of meat to his wife.

“Deliver it to my brother’s wife.” He says.

His wife conceals the meat and does not deliver it. Poor brother’s wife was pregnant. She looks at the door when she hears a knock at the door. Once the door was being knocked, she stared seeing that her sister-in-law has brought pieces of bone throwing out for dogs, while there is no dog. Looking forward to getting help, poor pregnant collects pieces of bone and brings them at home. She washes pieces of bone boiling them and sips it totally.

Deep dark at night, poor brother returns home asking his wife:” did you have the meat?”

“What kind of human you are?! What do you mean by have the meat?” his wife says.

“You ate a huge pot of meat and deny it?” her husband says. The woman says nothing and calms down.

Next day, her sister-in-law says to her daughter:” bring the meat and let’s eat it.”

Her daughter goes trying to open the lid of pot, but she cannot manage to open it. She returns to her mother saying:” I cannot open the lid.”

“God damns you! Cannot you open a lid!” her mother says.

She opens the lid and all of a sudden a huge black snake appears circling around her neck. It keeps pressuring till the woman dies. People gather around trying to get off the snake, but they cannot. The poor brother’s wife informed and came. People are asking “why it happened?” Her daughter narrates what happened last night. The wife of poor brother understands what happened was for her. She brings Koran praying God for releasing her sister-in-law. God grants her pray and release her sister-in-law.



[1] Narrated by Qamar Gol, 45 years old, Originally from Ghazni grown up in Panjab and Behsud, 1381

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