From the folklore of the Saora
A Raja and his queen ruled in Kachnapur. They had four daughters and one son. Unhappily, no one came to ask for the daughters in marriage. Sonbandha Raja of Sanagarh exiled his four sons. They wandered through every land and at last came to Kacknapur. They sought work but no one wanted them. One day they went in despair to the Raja’s house. The Raja recognized that they were princes and asked what had happened. He let them stay with him and married them to his daughters, and they lived happily together.
But in Kachnapur there was a Dano, which ate a man a day as its ration. The people never burned the dead, giving the Dano the corpses in the hope that they would satisfy him, but it wanted a living man every day as well.
One night, came the turn of the Raja to send someone from his house. That very day his son died and the four brothers carried the body to the place where the Dano was waiting for his food. In the evening the brothers spread their beds and lay down to sleep, keeping watch turn by turn. The night was nearly ended when the Dano came, having seized the Diwan’s daughter, and the youngest brother took his sword and killed him and cut off his nose and eyes. He lay down to sleep and in the morning the boys cut open the belly of the Dano and removed the liver.
From the belly came Baodevi the wind; it blew violently and sent trees and rocks into the air. But the boys caught Baodevi and pushed her into a box of betel. The youngest son went to Indra Raja and fetched five drops of nectar and sprinkled it on the dead youth and he sat up. Then Baodevi begged forgiveness and said, “Let me go and I shall make no mischief in the world, but will always do what you want.” The boys broke her arms and legs and sent her to wander evermore from place to place. But now the wind is maimed and cannot go so fast.
Source:
Chapter 6, Tribal Myths of Orissa, Verrier Elwin, 1954
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