From Didayi Folklore
Bojai Didayi lived with his family in Jhariguda. This was before the days of gold and silver. Bojai had a cock and a hen which never laid an egg.
Now, though the Didayi did not know it, there was gold and silver just under the surface of the earth behind his house. One day the cock and hen scratched some of it up; the metal was soft in those days and the fowls ate it. They did this daily and used to pass gold and silver in their droppings about the house. The girls of the family, not knowing what it was, used to sweep it up with the refuse and throw it away. But one day the youngest girl noticed that it sparkled and shone in the sun and when she pointed this out to the others they began collecting it.
One day shortly afterwards a goldsmith had a dream telling him that there was gold and silver in Jhariguda and that he should make it into ornaments. He hastened to the place and when he arrived there he found no one but the youngest daughter at home. He asked her for the gold and silver, promising to make her ornaments, and she at once gave hi what she had. He wandered about round the house and soon noticed where the fowls were scratching up the precious metals. He waited till nightfall and then quietly dug up as much as he could carry, wrapped it in his bundle and ran away,
Silver and Gold were angry at being stolen in this way, and they became hard and sank deep into the earth, with the result that today they are rare as well as precious.
Source:
Chapter 1, Tribal Myths of Orissa, Verrier Elwin, 1954
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