The Boy Who Became a Bulbul
This story is about a boy who becomes a Bulbul and goes
around gathering things so that he might get revenge for his death. It all started
when his stepmother suggested that the boy and father made a bet. Whoever gathered
more thorn bushels would win and cut the head off the other. It just so happens
that the father cheated his son out of death by taking his sons bushels and
adding them to his own. He then cut off his head and brought it in to his wife,
who then put it in a pot to cook. His sister thankfully came back from the
mulla and was instructed to take all the brothers’ bones and wash them with
rose water. Then she was instructed to bury them in the garden and say a prayer
over them every Friday eve. The sister does this, and her brother comes back in
the form of a bulbul and repeats a chant to people. When people here this chant
that he does they obey what he suggests they do. He goes and collects needles from
the needle maker and then kills his stepmother with them by having her open her
mouth and he sticks them in while her mouth is open, and her eyes are closed.
He then goes to the sugar stick makers and gets a sugar stick. He returns to
his sister and sings his chant getting her to open her mouth. He then proceeds
to stick the sugar stick in her mouth for her to eat. No repercussions befall
the father however. The boy in the form of a bird flies away and never goes
home again.
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