Folklore: A Tale of Two Hunters
Compilation: Kishore Subba (Limbu)
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Mane and Dhane were well-known hunters in the village many years ago.One evening, Mane and Dhane marked out the night stay of the Kalij (the Jungle Roster) somewhere in the Amphoe jungle. Then they came back home and had dinner. Then two brothers, Mane and Dhane, went hunting with a loaded gun, torchlight, and Khukuri (the Nepali knife). When they arrived at the location they had marked, Dhane was a sharpshooter, so they lit a torch and saw a couple of Kalij sitting on the tree's branches.Dhane added a torch to the gun and aimed at the Kalij, then shot the gun. Kalij, the prey, fell with the sound of "bhakta," "bhukka," both of them having fallen.But from the place where it fell, it was rolling downwards. Mane and Dhane are following the prey. They were tracing through the fallen feathers of the Kalij and the blood marks on the field and the grass. They couldn't find any mark or sign after crossing the footrails in the jungle. "What is going on today?" Says Dhane. Mane said, "Yes." Both of them have fallen. "Where did they roll down?" Dhane was fed up with this and sat on a rock to smoke a cigarette, and Mane kept searching around there. There was a strange signal a little downward, somewhere from the rock cliffs.It was noticed by both Mane and Dhane, and they are both very afraid from the inside, though they pretended not to be afraid of each other. Dhane loads the gun while he finishes his smoking. And the two brothers who live at homeThey were walking, and something made a sound and signalled a little back.Even though both of them were scared, they were walking, pretending to be virility, and talking in a loud voice. And as they walked... something followed them, making sounds and giving them signals."What the hell is following us today?" they wondered as they arrived at the large open field with green grass.They saw something white with a beak, a horn, or something like a vulture or a wild bobcat when they focused their light behind them on the grassland.They were both terrified, and what the hell is this? And they walk a little. Strange things can also walk.When they stopped, that too would be stopped. Dhane then shot at those things and ran for home.And the next morning, the two brothers woke up early in the morning and went there, where they shot at night. But there was only a sign of the bullet at the same place that the strange things stood, and there was nothing other than that. After that, Dhane and Mane used to be very scared to hunt at night.
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