As the next brother was going she said, “Anē! Elder brother, look at my boy’s horoscope.” He said, “I will not.”
Thus, in that way all the six elder brothers refused.
Afterwards, when the youngest brother was going, on her saying, “Anē! Elder brother, look at my boy’s horoscope,” he said, “Hā,” and went.
When he looked at it, the astrologer said, “He is born such that he will bring misfortune to those seven girls. The child will be so lucky that he might obtain a kingdom.”
Then the brother having returned, said to that woman, “That one has been born such that he will eat thee. Knock his head on a stone or root, and kill him.”
The woman saying, “It is good. Let him eat me,” reared him.
The child having become big, said at the hand of the woman, “Mother, now then, oughtn’t you to bring me an assistant (i.e. a wife)?” The woman replied, “Anē! Son, who will give in marriage to us?”
Afterwards the youth went to a place where they were grinding flour, and having put a little flour under his finger nail, came back. “Mother, mother, quickly hold a basin,” he said. The woman held one. Then, when he put into the basin the little flour that was under his finger nail, it filled it and ran over.
Having gone again to a place where they were expressing coconut oil, in the same way he took a little coconut under his finger nail, and came back. “Mother, mother, hold that quickly,” he said. The woman held it. That also was filled and overflowed.
Again, having gone to a place where they were warming Palm-tree syrup, in the same way he took some under his finger nail, and came back. “Mother, mother, hold that quickly,” he said. That also was filled and overflowed.