They’ll me myself to kill devise;
In bed the gold-hued nephew cries;
As a lady, gold-hued sister rise.”
Afterwards, the cobra came [in her woman’s form], and having suckled and bathed the child, and sent it to sleep, cooked for the King, and apportioned the food for him.
Then when she tried to go away [in her cobra form], the King cut the cobra in two with his sword. One piece dropped down into the ant-hill; the other piece became the Queen, and remained there.
After that, the King collected cobras, polangās, all kinds of snakes, and having, with the Queen, put them into two corn measures, they took the two boxes, and went to the house where the Queen’s father and Loku-Ammā were. There they gave them the two boxes, and said, “We have brought presents for you. Go into the house, and having shut the door, and lowered the bolt, open the mouths of the two boxes. Otherwise, do not open the mouths in the light.” The King and Queen remained outside.
The Queen’s father and Loku-Ammā, taking the two boxes, went into the house, and having shut the door and bolted it, opened the mouths of the two boxes. At that moment, the snakes that were in them came out, and bit both of them, and both of them died.
Afterwards, the King and Queen came to the city, and stayed there.
North-western Province.