From the folklore of the Kond
In the days when men were few, there was no gold or silver. After the population increased, there was a great famine and men began to die; they had only flowers and fruit to live on. This lasted three years and the people left their villages to live in the hills. Engrada and Bataroli went to Tikawali Hill and lived there. At the end of that time there was grain in Bhawanipatna. There was a Dom called Bodseth and the people bartered their jungle produce with him for rice. When they brought a load of roots and fruit, he gave a double handful of rice for it.
One day Engrada went for roots to a hill and his wife remained at home. At midday Engrada started home. By the path was a mango tree loaded with fruit and he got a pole and knocked down six mangoes. Under the tree were some quail and when the mangoes fell they killed six of them. Under the same tree a hare was sleeping and a branch fell on it and killed it. As it died, it kicked out with its legs and knocked up some earth and there was gold and silver. When Engrada saw it, he thought it was some sort of special root and took it home along with the hare and quail. When they cut up the hare they found a small bee in its ear and in the ear was a whole cupful of honey. They took honey, quail, gold and silver to Bodseth and he gave them a load of rice for it. After that, every day Engrada got gold and silver and exchanged it for rice.
Gradually other people heard of it and the news reached Kirimal Sahib who came and in the name of the Government took it away from the Konds.
Source:
Chapter 1, Tribal Myths of Orissa, Verrier Elwin, 1954
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