“A storm as black as the so fruit, brother,
Is coming, full of danger for us:
Come let us flee to the homestead of the liquor seller.”
But the brother answered—
“The liquor seller’s house is an evil house:
You only wish to go there for mischief.”
So they stayed where they were and the lightning came and slew them both.
CLXIX. Pregnant Women.
Pregnant women are not allowed to go about alone outside the village; for there are bongas everywhere and some of them dislike the sight of pregnant women and kill them or cause the child to be born wry-necked.