The Doe and the Crow
- sajiga kwakka mata sanaba -
- Animal Fables-
Fungawari Singbul by B. Jayantakumar Sharma *
Art Work - Phurailatpam Banti
Animal Fables:
Funga Wari Singbul: Page 4
sajiga kwakka mata sanaba
Once upon a time in a forest, there lives a doe whose husband had died in a young age.
One day when the doe was roaming around lost in the thought of her husband, she met a crow who has the same fate so they decided to become friends. They lived together for some time.
One day the crow had to go out in search of food, but told the doe to call if anything bad happens to her.
In the same jungle, there lived a vixen too. She saw the doe and made friend with the motive of eating her. In order to eat her, she started making plans.
One day, she went out in search of food for the doe and saw a trap on the way.
She thought of trapping the doe and then eating her so she came back and lied to the doe about finding plenty of gooseberries near a pond.
As they came along, the doe got caught on the trap but, unfortunately for the vixen, the trap took the doe so high that she cannot reach the doe.
Again another plan struck the vixen and so she waited for the man who laid the trap to come.
The helpless doe started calling out to her friend, the crow. The crow hearing the call flew along. She asked the doe to calm down and then fixed a plan for escaping.
The doe has to play dead when the man comes, and when the man took her down carelessly thinking she is dead, she should run away.
When the man came to claim his catch, the duo work exactly as planned and the doe escapes on which the man chased with a spear. The doe managed to escape from the man.
The man became so angry that he thought he will kill any animal he meets on the way.
The vixen came out from her hiding place and met the man.
The man threw his spear towards the vixen and killed her.
The true hearted doe and the crow then lived happily ever after in the jungle.
Motto: If we hatch evil plans for other, the evil may befall on us.
* This is a Manipur folk tale translated from a Book in Manipuri "Fungawari Singbul" compiled by B. Jayantakumar Sharma. E-pao.net thanks B. Jayantakumar Sharma for giving permission to reproduced in this site. Translation done by Team e-pao. This was webcasted on August 14, 2011.
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