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EP 137: Bengal- The Boy with the Moon on his Forehead (Lal Behari Day 1912) · Sandman Stories Presents

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Welcome back. Listeners, to Sandman stories,
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presents. A folklore podcast, I read you
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to sleep or until the next story.
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I'm your host Dustin. Today, we are back in Bengal
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with the stories of Lao bihari day.
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This one is an epic about a beautiful daughter of a poor
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woman and the King wanting kids. It is a whole epic, and 25 pages
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long. So I will tell you a few Bengali
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words and get started. Some words to no tataki and
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Cacciatore the kinds of plants and pucks.
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You dodge means the king of birds and was a group of very
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fast running horses. And of course, rakshasas are
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people eating demons with lots of special powers.
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Okay, let's begin. The boy with the moon on his
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forehead. There was a certain King who had
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six Queens, none of whom board children.
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Physicians, holy sages medicaments, and all sorts of
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prognosticators were consulted. Countless drugs were given, but
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all to no purpose. The King was inconsolable, his
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ministers told him to marry a seventh wife and he was
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accordingly on the lookout. In the world city, there were
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lived, a poor old woman who used to pick up the cow, dung from
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the fields, make it into cakes, dry them in the Sun and sell
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them for fuel in the market. This was her only means of
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subsistence this old woman had a daughter who was exquisitely,
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beautiful, her beauty excited, the admiration of everyone that
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saw her and it was solely in consequence of her surpassing
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beauty. That three young ladies above
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her and rank and station made friendship with her.
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Those three young ladies were the daughter of the king's
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Minister, the daughter of a wealthy Merchant and the
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daughter of the royal priest. These three young ladies
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together with the daughter of the poor old woman.
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Were one day bathing in a tank. Not far from the palace.
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As they were performing their Washings each dwelt on her own
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good qualities. Look here sister said, The
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Minister's daughter addressing the Merchant's daughter.
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The man that marries me will be a happy man for he will not have
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to buy clothes for me. The clothes which I wear.
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Never get old. Never gets oiled and Never Tear.
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The Merchant's daughter said and my husband to will be a happy
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man for the fuel in which I use in cooking never turns into
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ashes, the same fuel serves day after day year after year.
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And my husband will also become a happy man.
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So the daughter of the royal chaplain for the rice, which I
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cook one day, never runs out and after we have eaten our film,
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the same amount that was first. Cooked always remains in the
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pot. The daughter of the poor old
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woman said in her tongue and the man who marries me will also be
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happy for. I shall give birth to Twin
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children a son and a daughter. The daughter will be divinely.
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Fair and the sun will have the moon on his forehead and stars
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in the palms of his hands. The above conversation was
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overheard by the king who as he was on the lookout for a second.
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Queen used to skulk about in places where women get together.
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The king thought in his mind. I don't care a straw.
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For the girls, whose clothes never Terror.
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Never get old. Neither, do I care for the other
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girl whose fuel is never consumed?
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Nor for the third girl? Whose rice never fails in the
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pot. But the fourth girl is quite
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Charming. She will give birth to Twin
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children a son and a daughter. The daughter will be divinely.
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Fair in the sun will have the moon on his forehead and stars
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in the palms of his hands. That is the girl I want.
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I'll make her my wife. I'm making inquiries on the same
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day. The King founded.
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The fourth girl was the daughter of the poor old woman who picked
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up a cow dung from the fields. But even though there was an
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infinite disparity and rank, he was determined to marry her.
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On the very same day, he sent for the poor old woman.
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She poor thing was quite frightened when she saw
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messenger of the king standing at the door of her Hut.
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She thought that the king had sent for her to punish her
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because perhaps she had some day, unwittingly picked up the
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dung of the Kings cattle. She went to the palace and was
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admitted into the king's private chamber.
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The king asked her, whether she had a very fair daughter and
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whether that daughter was the friend of his own ministers and
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Priests daughters. When the woman answered in the
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affirmative he said to her. I will marry your daughter and
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make her my queen. The woman.
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Could hardly believe her own ears.
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The thing was so strange. He however, solemnly declared to
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her that he had made up his mind and was determined to marry her
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daughter? It was soon known in the capital
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that the King was going to marry the daughter of the old woman
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who picked up cow dung in the fields.
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When the six Queens heard the news, they would not believe it
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until the king himself told him that the news was true.
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They thought that the king had somehow gone mad, they reasoned
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with him. Thus what, Folly what Madness to
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marry, a girl who is not fit to be our maid servant, and you
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expect us to treat her as are equal.
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A girl, whose mother goes about picking up cow dung in the
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fields, surely my Lord, you're beside yourself.
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The king's purpose. However, remained on shaken, the
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Royal astrologer was called and an auspicious day, was fixed for
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the celebration of the Kings marriage.
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On the appointed day, the Royal priest tied, the marital knot
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and the daughter of the poor old woman who picked up cow dung in
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the fields, became the seventh and best beloved Queen.
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Sometime after the celebration of the marriage, the king went
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for six months to another part of his dominions.
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Before setting out, he called the seventh Queen and said to
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her, I am going away to another part of my dominions for six
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months before the expiration of that period, I expect you to be
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in bed, giving birth to our child.
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But I would like to be with you at that time as your enemies,
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may do Mischief. Take this Golden Bell and hang
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it in your room when the Pains of childbirth come upon you ring
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this Bell and I will be with you in a moment in whatever part of
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my dominions, I might be at the time.
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Remember, you are to ring the bell.
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Only when you feel the Pains of childbirth. after saying this
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the king started on his journey, 26 Queen's would overheard the
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king went on the next day to the apartments of the seventh Queen
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and said, what a nice Bell of gold.
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You've got sister, where did you get it?
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And why do you have it hung up? The seventh Queen and her
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Simplicity said the King has given it to me and if I were to
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ring it, the king would immediately come to me wherever
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he might be at the time. Impossible.
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So the six Queens you must have misunderstood the king who could
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believe that this belt can be heard at a distance of hundreds
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of miles, besides, if it could be heard, how would the king be
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able to travel a great distance in the twinkling of an eye?
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This must be a hoax. If you ring the bell, you will
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find that what the king said was pure nonsense. the Queensland
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told her to make a trial At first she was unwilling,
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remembering what the king had told her, but at last she was
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provoked into ringing the bell The King was at that moment,
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halfway to the capital of his other dominions, but at the
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ringing of the Bell, he stopped short in his journey turned
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back. And in no time stood in the
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Queens apartments. Finding the queen going about in
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her rooms. He asked her.
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Why? She had rung?
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The Bell though. Her hour had not yet?
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Come She without informing the king of the entreaty of the six
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Queens replied that she rang the bell only to see whether what
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the king had said was true. The King was somewhat indignant.
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He told her distinctly not to run the Bell again to the
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moment. Her childbearing pains came and
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then went away. After the lapse of some weeks,
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the six Queens, again bug the seventh Queen to make a second
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trial of the Bell. They said to her the first time
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when you rang the bell, the King was only a short distance from
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you. It was therefore easy for him to
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hear the bell and come to you. But now he has long ago settled
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in his other Capital. Let us see if he will now hear
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the bell and come to you. She resisted for a long time but
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was it last provoked by them to ring the bell?
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When the sound of the Bell reached the king, he was in the
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court, dispensing justice. But when he heard the sound of
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the bell and no one else heard it, he closed the Cork and in no
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time, stood in the Queens apartments.
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Finding that the queen was not about to be confined.
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He again asked her why she had rung the Bell before her hour?
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She without saying anything of the pressures of the other six
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Queens, reply that she merely made a second trial of the Bell.
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The king became very angry and said to her.
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Now, listen since you have called me twice for nothing.
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Let it be known to you that when the throes of childbirth do
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really come upon you and you ring the bell ever so lustily, I
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will not come to you. You must be left to your fate.
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The king then went away. At last, the day of the 7th
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Queens, Deliverance arrived on first feeling the pain, she rang
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the Golden Bell, she waited. But the king did not make his
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appearance. She rang again with all her
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might still the king, did not make his appearance.
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The king certainly did hear the sound of the Bell, but he did
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not come as he was displeased with the queen.
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When the six Queens saw the king did not come.
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They went to the seventh Queen and told her that it was not
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customary. For the ladies of the palace to
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be confined in the Kings Apartments, she must go to a Hut
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near The Stables. They then sent for a midwife of
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the palace and heavily bribed her to take away the infant.
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The moment it was born into the world.
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The seventh Queen gave birth to a son who had the moon on his
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forehead and stars on the palms of his hands.
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Also to an uncommonly beautiful girl, the Midwife came with a
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couple newborn pups she put the pups before.
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The mother saying you have given birth to these and took the twin
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children away in an Earthen vessel.
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The queen was quite Delirious at the time.
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Did not notice that the twins were carried away.
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The king though, he was angry with the seventh Queen yet
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remembering that she was destined to give birth to the
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error of his throne changed his mind and came to see her the
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next morning. The pups will produce before the
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king as The Offspring of the Queen, the Kings anger and
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vexation knew no bounds. He ordered that, the seventh
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Queen should be expelled from the palace that she should be
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closed in leather, and that she should be employed in the
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marketplace to drive away crows and to keep off the dogs.
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Though, scarcely able to move, she was driven away from the
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palace. Stripped of her fine, robes,
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clothing, leather, and set to drive away, the crows of the
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marketplace The Midwife, when she put the twins in the Earthen
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vessel thought of the best way to destroy them.
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She did not think it proper to throw them into a tank us.
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They should be discovered. The next day.
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Neither did she think of bearing them in the ground?
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Let's they should be dug up by a jack on exposed to the Gaze of
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people. The best way to get rid of them,
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she thought would be to burn them and reduce them to ashes so
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that no trace of them might be found.
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But how could she at that dead hour of the night burn them,
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without some other person helping her A happy thought
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struck her. There was a Potter on the
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outskirts of the city who during the day, molded vessels of Clay
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on his wheel and burned them during the latter part of the
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night. The Midwife thought that the
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best plan would be to put the vessel with the twins, along
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with the unburnt clay vessels, which the Potter had arranged
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and gone to sleep expecting to get up late in the night and set
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them on fire. In this way, she thought the
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twins would be reduced to ashes. She accordingly put the vessel
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with the twins. Along with the unburnt clay
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vessels of the Potter and went away.
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Somehow or another that night, the Potter and his wife
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overslept, it was near the break of day when The Potters wife
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Awakening out of her sleep roused, her husband and said, oh
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my good man, we have overslept. It is now near morning knife
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here. Now it is too late to set the
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pots on fire. He slowly, unbolting, the door
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of her Cottage. She rushed out to the place
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where the pots were arranged in rows.
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She could scarcely believe her eyes when she saw that.
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All the pots have been baked. And we're looking bright red
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though. Neither, She nor her husband had
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applied, any fire to them? Wondering at her good luck and
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not knowing what to make of it. She ran to her husband and said,
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just come and see. The Potter came saw and wondered
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the pots had never before. Been so well-baked who could
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have done this. This could have proceeded only
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from some god or goddess. Fumbling about in the pots, he
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accidentally up. Turn one in which low and behold
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were seen huddled up together. Two newly born, infants of
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unearthly beauty. The Potter said to his wife, my
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dear, you must pretend to have given birth to these beautiful
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children accordingly. All Arrangements were made and
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in due time, it was given out that the twins have been born to
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her and such lovely twins. They were on the same day, many
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women of the neighborhood came to see The Potter's White and
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the twins to which he had given birth and to offer their
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congratulations on this unexpected.
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Good Fortune. As for the Potter's wife, she
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cannot be too proud of her potential German and said to her
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admiring friends. I have hardly hoped to have any
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children at all but now that the gods have given me, these twins,
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may they receive the blessings of you all and live forever.
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The twins, grew, and grew and grew, until they were very
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strong. The brother and sister played
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about in the fields in Lanes, they were the admiration of all,
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who saw them and all wondered at the uncommonly.
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Good luck of the Potter being blessed, with such angelic
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children, Care about 12 years old, when the Potter, the
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reputed father became dangerously ill.
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It was evident to all that, his sickness would end in his death.
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The Potter perceiving his last and approaching said to his
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wife, my dear I'm going the way of all upon the Earth but I am
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leaving you enough to live on stay strong and take care of
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these children. The woman said to her husband, I
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am not going to survive. You like all strong loves.
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I'm fated to die along with you, my heart cannot survive.
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Losing you? You and I will burn together on
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the same funeral pyre. As for the children, they are
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old enough to take care of themselves and you are leaving
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them enough money. Her friends tried to dissuade
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her from her purpose but in vain the Potter died.
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And as his remains were being burnt his wife now, a Widow died
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in front of the funeral pyre and was then burnt herself.
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The boy, with the moon on his forehead, who always kept his
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head covered with a turban less, his Halo should attract notice,
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and his sister. Now, broke up the Potter shop,
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sold, the wheel and pots, and pans and went to the Bazaar in
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the King City. the moment they entered the bazaar was lit up,
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all of a sudden The shopkeepers of the bizarre were greatly
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surprised. They thought some Divine beings
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must have entered the place. They looked upon the beautiful
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boy and his sister with wonder, they beg them to stay in the
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bazaar. They built a house for them.
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When they used to go out on walks, they were always followed
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at a distance by a woman clothed in leather, Who was appointed by
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the king to drive away, the crows from the bazaar.
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By some unaccountable impulse. She also used to hang about the
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house in which they live. The boy in a short time bought a
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horse and went to hunting in the neighboring Forest.
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One day while he was hunting, the King was also hunting in the
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same forest and seeing a brother Huntsman the king Drew near him.
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The King was struck with the beauty of the lad and had a
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yearning for him. The moment, he saw him as a
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deer, went past the youth shot, an arrow and the reaction of the
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force necessary to shoot the arrow, with the turban, fall off
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his head after which a bright light like that of the moon was
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seem shining on his forehead. The king saw in immediately
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thought of the sun with the moon on his forehead and stars in the
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palms of his hands who was to have been born to the seventh
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Queen. The youth on letting the arrow
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fly galloped off in spite of an Earnest entreaty of the king to
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wait and speak with him. The king went home.
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A satyr man that he had come out of it.
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He became very moody and Melancholy, the six Queens asked
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him why he was looking so sad. He told him that he had seen in
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the woods, a lad with the moon on his forehead, which reminded
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him of the son who is to be born of the seventh Queen The six
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Queens tried to comfort him in the best way they could, but
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they wondered who the youth could be, was it possible that
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the twins were living? Did not the Midwife say that?
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She had burnt both the Son and the daughter to ashes?
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Who then could the slab be. The Midwife was sent for by the
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six queens and questioned she swore that she had seen the
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twins burnt as for the lad, whom the king had met with.
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She would soon find out who he was.
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I'm making enquiries the Midwife soon, found out the two.
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Strangers were living in the bizarre and a house which the
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shopkeepers had built for them. She entered the house and saw
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the girl only has lad had gone out again and shooting.
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She pretended to be there at would gone away to another part
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of the country shortly after their birth.
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She had been searching after them for a long time and was now
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glad to find them in the King City near the palace.
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She greatly admired, the beauty of the girl and said, to her, my
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dear child. You are so beautiful.
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You require the ketaki flower to properly set off your beauty.
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You should tell your brother to plant a row of that flower.
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In this Courtyard. What flower is that Aunty?
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I've never seen it. How could you have seen it?
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My child is not found here. It grows on the other side of
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the ocean guarded by 700 rakshasas.
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How then will my brother? Get it said the girl, he may try
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to get it if you speak with him replied the woman.
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The Woman made this proposal in the hope that the boy with the
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moon on his forehead, would perish in the attempt to get the
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flower. When the youth with the moon
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eyes forehead returned from hunting, his sister told him of
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the visit paid to her by the aunt and requested if possible
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to get her the ketaki flower. He was skeptical about the
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existence of any Aunt of those in the world but he resolved
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that to please his beloved sister, he would get the flower
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on which she had set her heart. The next morning accordingly, he
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started on his journey after bidding.
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His sister not to stir out of the house until his return He
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wrote on his Fleet Steed which was of the pakshi Raj tribe.
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And soon reached the outskirts of what seemed to him, dense,
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forests of interminable length. He observes some rakshasas
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prowling about, he went to some distance shot with his Arrow,
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some deer, and some rhinoceroses in the neighboring thickets and
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approaching the place, where the rakshasas were prowling about
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called out. Oh, Auntie dear.
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Oh Auntie dear. Your nephew is here.
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A huge Rock chassis came towards him and said, oh, you are the
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Youth of the moon on your forehead and the stars on the
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palms of your hands. We were all expecting you but as
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you have called me on I will not eat you up.
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What is it? You want have you brought any
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food for me? The youth gave her the deer
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rhinoceroses, which he had killed her mouth watered at the
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site of the dead animals and she began eating them.
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After swallowing up the carcasses bones and all she
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said, well, what do you want? Do you said I want some Kentucky
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flowers for my sister? She then told him that it would
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be difficult for him to get the flower.
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As it was guarded by 700 rakshasas.
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However, he might make the attempt, but in the first
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instance, he must go to his uncle on the north side of that
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Forest. While the youth was going to his
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uncle of the north, on the way, he killed some deer and
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rhinoceroses and seeing a gigantic rock Shots at some
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distance. Cried Out, Uncle dear Uncle,
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dear your nephew is here and he has sent me to you.
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The rakshasa came nearer and said, you are the Youth of the
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moon on your forehead and stars on the palms of your hands.
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I would have swallowed you out. Right.
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Had you not called me uncle and had you not said that.
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Your aunt had sent me now. What is it?
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You want. The Savory deer and rhinoceroses
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were then presented to him. He ate them all and then listen
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to the petition of the youth. The youth wanted the ketaki
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flower, the rakshasa said you want the ketaki flower very
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well, try and get it if you can. After passing through this
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Forest, you will come to an impenetrable Forest of the
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Cheery. You will say to that Forest.
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Oh, mother could Sherry please make way for me or else.
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I die on that. The forest will open up a
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passage for you. You will next come to the ocean,
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you will say to the ocean. Oh, mother ocean, please make
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away from me or else I die. And the ocean will make a way
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for you. After crossing the ocean, you
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enter the gardens with a kotaki blooms goodbye do as I have told
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you Do you think his raksasa uncle and went on his way?
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After he had passed through the forest, he saw before him and
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impenetrable Forest of kids cheering.
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It was so close and thick and all bristling with thorns that
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not a mouse could go through it. Remembering the advice of his
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uncle, he stood before the force with folded hands and said, oh
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mother could Sherry please make way for me or else I die.
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Suddenly a clear path opened up in the forest and the youth
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gladly passed through it. The ocean.
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Now, lay before him, he said to the ocean.
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Oh, mother ocean. Make Way for me or else I die.
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Fourth with the Waters of the ocean.
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Stood up on two sides, like two walls, leaving an open passage
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between them and the youth pass through them.
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Dryly Now right before him with a Gardens of the ketaki flower,
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he entered the enclosure and found himself in a spacious
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Palace which seemed to be unoccupied.
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On going from apartment to apartment.
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He found a young lady of more than Earthly Beauty sleeping on
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a bed of gold. He went near her noticed, two
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little sticks, one of gold in the other of sober lying in the
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bed. The silver stick lay me to the
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feet of the Sleeping Beauty And The Golden One near the head.
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He took up the sticks in his hands and as he was examining
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them, the Golden Stick accidentally fell upon the feet
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of the lady in a moment, the lady woke up, sat up and said to
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the youth stranger. How is it that you have come to
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this dismal place. I know who you are and I know
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your history. You are the Youth of the moon on
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your forehead and stars in the palms of your hands.
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Flee flee from this place. This is the residence of 700
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rakshasas who guard The Gardens of the cat.
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A cute flower. They have all gone a-hunting,
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but there was surely return by Sundown.
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And if they find you here, you will be eaten up.
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One rock. Chassis brought me here from the
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Earth where my father is King. She loves me very dearly and
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will not. Let me go away.
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By means of these gold and silver stick.
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She kills me when she goes away in the morning by means of these
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sticks. She revived me when she returns
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in the evening flee. Flee, hence, or you die.
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The youth told the young lady. How is Sister wished?
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Very much to have the ketaki flower, how he passed through
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the forest of Kotori and how he crossed the ocean.
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He said that he was also determined not to go alone, he
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must take the young lady along with him.
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The remaining part of that day, they spent together rambling
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about in The Gardens as the time was drawing near when the
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rakshasa should return the youth, buried himself.
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Among the enormous heap of ketaki flower, which lay on the
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adjoining apartment. After killing the young lady by
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touching her head, with the golden stick, just after Sunset.
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The youth heard the sound of a mighty Tempest, it was the
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return of 700 rakshasas to the gardens.
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One of them entered the apartment of the young lady,
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revived her and said I smell a human being, the young leader
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replied. How can a human being come to
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this place? I'm the only human being here.
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The Rock chassis then stretched herself on the floor and told
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the young lady to shampoo her legs as she was going on
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shampoo. And she, let it tear drop
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falling and rakshasas leg. Why are you weeping my dear
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child as the raw eater? Why are you crying is something
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troubling, you know Mama answered the young lady, nothing
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is troubling me. What can trouble me when you
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have made me so comfortable? I was only thinking about what
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would become of me when you die. When I die child for the rock
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chassis, shall I die? Yes, of course, All Creatures
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die but the death of a rock show Asura rakshasi will never
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happen. You know child that deep tank in
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the middle part of these Gardens.
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Well at the bottom of that tank is a wooden box in which there
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are a male and a female. Be it is ordain'd by Fate but if
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a human being was the moon on his forehead and stars on the
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palms of his hands were to come here.
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And dive into that tank and get a hold of the same wooden box
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and crushed to death the male and female bees without letting
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a drop of their blood fall on the ground, then we should die.
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But the accomplishment of this decree of Fate is, I think
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impossible for in the first place.
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There can be no such a human being who have the moon on his
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forehead and stars on the palms of his hands.
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And in the second place, if there were such a man, he would
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find it impossible to come to this place guarded as it is by
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the seven hundred of us encompassed by a deep ocean and
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barricaded by an impervious Forest of kachori, not to speak
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of the outposts and Sentinels that are stationed on the other
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side of the forest. And then even if he succeeds in
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coming here, you will, perhaps not know the secret of the
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wooden box. And even if he knows the secret
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of the wooden box, he may not succeed in killing the bees,
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without letting a drop of their blood fall on the ground and woe
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be to him of a drop does fall on the ground.
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For in that case, you'll be torn up into 700 Pieces by us.
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You see them child, but we are almost Immortal, not actually,
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but virtually. So you may therefore dismiss
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your fears. On the next morning, The Rock
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chassis got up, kill the young lady by means of the sticks and
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went away in search of food along with other rakshasas and
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wrap chassis. The lad would the moon on his
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forehead and stars in the palms of his hands.
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Came out of the Heap of flowers and revive the young lady.
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The young lady recited. To the young man, the whole
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conversation that she had had with the rock chassis.
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It was a perfect Revelation to him, he however, lost no time in
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beginning to act, he shut the heavy iron gates with the
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gardens, he dove into the tank and brought up the wooden box.
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He opened the wooden box and caught.
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Hold of the male and female bees has.
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They're about to escape. Crush them with the palms of his
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hands with smearing his body with every drop of their blood.
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The moment this was done loud. Cries and groans were heard from
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the edges of the garden. An agreement with the decree of
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Fate. All the rakshasas approach The
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Gardens and fell down dead. The youth with the moon on his
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forehead took as many ketaki flowers as he could together
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with their seeds and left the palace in the company of The
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Young and Beautiful Lady. Mountain heaps of carcasses of
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the mighty dead surrounded. The palace, the Waters of the
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ocean retrievable for the Youth has, before the forest of
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kachori. Also opened a Passage through
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it. And the happy, couple reached
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the house in the bazaar where they were welcomed by the sister
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of the youth, where the moon on his forehead.
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On the following morning, the youth as usual went to hunt.
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The king was also there a deer pass by and the youth shot an
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arrow. As he shot the turbine.
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As usual fell off his head and her bright light issued from it.
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The king saw in wondered, he told the youth to stop as he
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wished to strike up a friendship with him.
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Do you told him to come to his house and gave him his address?
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The king went to the house of the youth from the middle of the
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day, push, Parvati for that was the name of the young lady that
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had been brought from Beyond the ocean, told the king for she
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knew the whole story. How his seventh wife had been
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persuaded by the other six Queens to ring the bell twice
31:14
before her time. How she was delivered of a
31:17
beautiful boy. And girl, how pumps were
31:20
substituted in their room? How the Twins were saved in a
31:23
miraculous manner in the house of the Potter.
31:26
How they were? Well, treated in the bazaar?
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How the youth with the moon on his forehead rescued, her from
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the clutches of the rakshasas? The king mightily incensed with
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the six Queens had them on the following day.
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Buried alive in the ground. The seventh Queen was then
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brought from the marketplace and reinstated in her position and
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the youth with the moon on his forehead, and the lovely push,
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Parvati and their lovely sister lived happily together.
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Hear my story ended. The Nadia Thorn withereth Etc.
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Wow, that story took a whole turn in the middle.
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I didn't see the island of the rakshasas coming.
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But that's a lovely story. I see a lot of overlap with
32:30
these stories from Armenia and turkey going up to the giant
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scary. Giant or do or very insane?
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Hello Mother. Hello.
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Auntie and I'll play. Greetings tends to turn these
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giant scary monsters into nice. He's, I hope that one of these
32:47
stories will have something other than extreme Beauty for
32:49
the Worm, but maybe I wish too much.
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And the podcast shout out is to Dustin Ken everything.
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Dustin goes through movies TV, books, all with an eye on young
33:01
adult media, team love stories. Teen horror team fantasy.
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Dustin is an amazing curator of an often overlooked genre of
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media. And if you love his podcast as
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much as I do go and give him a five star rating, a review, or
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maybe just buy him a cup of coffee.
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And The Listener shot up. This one's a specialist nurse
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shot out a listener from Columbia, South Carolina,
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representing seven percent of my listeners, from that state
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reached out to say to me that they like my podcast.
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So Shanice, thank you for listening and I hope you can get
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some good rest. Thank you and goodnight.