From Agaria Folklore
In Bara Bathi Bengala there was magic. There lived Kani Gondin, Sukhi Chamarin and Dhowan Dhobnin. These were the only three human beings in that country, for they had turned all the other inhabitants into cats.
When Guru Daugun heard about this, he took his twelve disciples and gave each of them a pot full of magic herbs to carry and a piece of iron and set out for Bengal. When they reached Bengal they felt hungry and one of the disciples went to a village to get fire. Dhowan Dhobnin was in that village, and she picked up the fire in her hands and offered it to him. But the boy was frightened and ran away. Then the Guru himself went and brought the fire in his dhoti (loincloth).
There was a pond. They tried to take their cooking-pots there, but there was so much grass they could not get through. While they were struggling with the grass, the Dhobnin turned the twelve boys into stone and the Guru himself into a cat. She kept the cat with her in her house.
At home, Murra-kawar the Guru’s son was playing in the courtyard. By accident he broke an old woman’s fire-pot. She lost her temper and cried, “Your father is so clever that he is Guru of the whole world, but he is not so clever that he can escape being turned into a cat in Bengal.”
The boy was frightened and ran to tell Guru Danantar. This Guru went at once to Bengal. He turned himself into a fly and flew into the Dhobnin’s house. There was no one there, but a nice cat was guarding the house. Danantar by his magic turned the cat back into a man. Then he went to the pond and threw black and yellow rice at the stone figures of the disciples, and they became alive again. So all the human beings in Bengal were changed back from cats into their own shape.
Presently the Dhobnin came home, and now when Daugun Guru asked her for food, the rice she gave turned into scraps of iron. He and his disciples ate the iron and thus they conquered the three witches and got them into their power.
Source:
Chapter 21, Myths of Middle India, Verrier Elwin, 1949
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