"My husband has sent me out to draw
Water no frog has touched with his claw."
All was silent, so she said, "This must indeed be the water my husband wants." So she filled her water jar, and, turning round to go home, she saw a huge demon coming forth saying, "I smell man, I smell man."
Her husband behind, who knew how to talk to demons, called out,
"Demon bwe! bwe! bwe!
Demon bwe! bwe! bwe!
My wife run quickly past me,
Demon bwe! bwe! bwe!"
So his wife ran past him, and as the demon followed after her he cut off his tail, and at that moment he found himself in his house again and his wife found herself on the threshold.
She tried to take the water jar from her head to pass in at the door, but she found that it had stuck there, and she was not able to move it.
Then a neighbour came forward and tried to pull it off, but he could not, then came two men and then five and then twenty, but they could not get the water jar off. Then fifty tried, but failed, and at last five hundred men tried to pull it off, but it was of no avail.
Then came out the husband and said, "My wife, put down that water jar," and he slapped her in the face and at that moment the water jar fell off.
His wife said to him, "What do you strike me for?" and her husband said, "My wife, do you not see that that was the medicine that broke the charm and released you from the water jar? Did you not see that five hundred men were unable to get it off, and that I, by just slapping you, was able to get it off?" But the woman would not be satisfied, so went off to the Sultan and accused her husband before the Sultan of beating her. So the Sultan sent his soldiers to fetch Hapendeki, and when he was brought said to him, "How is this that you have beaten this woman your wife?"
