No one ever leaves the place of Mangangezulu.
Turn back, turn back, O chief.”
Sikulume replied: “I shall not turn back.”
The mouse then said: “As it is so, you must kill me and throw my skin up in the air.”
He did so.
The skin said: “You must not enter by the front of the village; you must not eat off a new mat; you must not sleep in a hut which has nothing in it.”
They arrived at the village of Mangangezulu. They entered it from the wrong side, so that all the people said: “Why is this?”
They replied: “It is our custom.”
Food was brought to them on a new mat, but they said: “It is our custom to eat off old mats only.”
An empty hut was given to them to sleep in, but they said: “It is our custom only to sleep in a hut that has things in it.”