Friday, November 28, 2014

THE GRANDDAUGHTER OF KENG KANG SNAKE

Months went past, Soriya delivered a daughter. She bore living and taking care of her daughter in the forest alone until she grew up. Unluckily, her daughter was born different from other children; her head was full of snakes. She looked horrible. Since she grew up, her mother had never let her go anywhere because she might frighten the villagers when seeing her head. When it was necessary to go somewhere, she would cover her daughter's head with headdress.

One day, a couple who did not have any children came to pray to a spiritual guardian for children by giving a lot of offerings. When Soriya's daughter saw such food, she was very hungry for it since she lived in the cave; she had never eaten such good food. She hid herself behind the guardian and took food to eat. The couple at first supposed that they were haunted by ghost, but when they looked for a long time they could see that it was a hand of a child. Then they went to look at the back of it; they saw a child as they had thought. They cursed her, pulled her hair and were about to hit her; then her headdress dropped down exposing the snakes on her head. Seeing like this, they ran to call other people to hit her. Fearing too much, the girl ran into the forest.

Poorly, the girl ran over to the sorceress’s cave. When the villagers saw such situation, they feared to follow her. When the girl got into the sorceress’s cave, she walked and looked at every mysterious place in the cave. While she was concentrating on the mystery, the sorceress jumped up from behind to strangle her throat in an attempt to make her tongues stick out; then she could put poisonous medicine into her mouth so that she became a genie of her.however, her intention was not successful because while she was strangling her throat, the girl cleansed her teeth tight; she did not open her mouth, and the snakes on her head bit the hand of the sorceress to convulse at once. Then the little girl ran out of the sorceress’s cave and returned home safely.

When the little girl arrived at her cave, her mother, Soriya, also came out and saw her daughter's head without headdress. She blamed her and asked her everything. The little girl told her mother what had happened from the beginning till she could run from the sorceress's cave. As soon as her daughter recalled the sorceress, Soriya asked her while the sorceress lived. Then she told her daughter not to leave their cave. Soriya went to the sorceress's cave to look for the diamond ring for her husband.

The title girl slept very well for a while. Suddenly, she seemed to dream of her mother in danger. Because she adored her mother very much, she shouted so loudly that she was awakened. She was very worried about her mother. She came out the cave and waited for her mother under a tree.

Suddenly, a baby parrot fell from its nest on the ground. The little girl helped this small parrot; she put it in its nest. The mother parrot thanked the little girl and asked why she was crying. The little girl told her, "Now I may not have mother any more because she has gone for long time to get the diamond ring back from the sorceress. Yet, she has not come back while my father has turned to be rock because of the sorceress. As long as we are able to get the diamond ring back from the sorceress, he will not become human again." The mother parrot, hearing what the little girl said, felt pity for her very much and she helped the little girl to look for her mother. The 15th night of seventh month of lunar calendar was a time when the sorceress was away from her cave. She had to prey for food like mud and insects, and the ring had to be with her; so they could get the ring back.

How poor Soriya was! No matter how hard she tried to overcome all the obstacles to save her husband, she finally was poisoned by the sorceress and became a cruel vampire. Tonight the sorceress went out to eat mud. Before she left, she ordered Soriya to keep an eye on the cave and gave her a bell to ring if there was something wrong in the cave so that she could come back quickly. She detached her neck from her body and flew away. After the sorceress left, the little girl and the parrot arrived; she opened the door and entered the cave. At that moment the little girl saw her mother being detained in a cage. She ran toward her mother, but Soriya caught her and wanted to bite her. The little girl pulled her hand quickly because she thought that her mother must be under the spell of the sorceress. The parrot reminded her to find the ring quickly because it feared that the sorceress might come back and saw them.

The little girl climbed up on a place. There she saw the sorceress's body without the head. Seeing this, the girl hastened to hook the ring from the sorceress's neck and told the parrot, "I get the ring in my hand. What should I do next?" The parrot replied, "Push the body of the sorceress to the ground!" whereas Soriya rang the bell as ordered. The sorceress heard the bell and flew back very fast to the cave. As soon as the sorceress was about to come into her body, the little girl pushed her body to the ground very timely; hence, the sorceress could not go into her body. Suddenly, her body was flamed.

Now things used to be dark became good. Soriya became a beautiful woman again while her husband also returned to a human. The little girl had a normal hair as other children. All the snakes that had lived on her hair ran to live in other places. After freeing from the curse, the couple, Soriya and her husband, put the diamond ring into the pond and told the public,

"If anyone does good deed and jump into the pond, if they are old, they will become young." In that time, many good doers dived into the pond and when they got up from water, they were young and good-looking as Soriya's husband told. Everybody thanked the couple a lot.

Talking about Lvea Chek, when she and her mother saw the people diving into the pond and coming back with a beautiful look like this, they wanted to dive too. But Soriya's husband told them not to dive into the pond since he had learnt that they both had done many evil things. Though the man tried to forbid them, they paid no attention to him; they were stubborn to dive into the pond. As doing bad deed, when they emerged from the water, they got leprosy. Their bodies were full of wounds. It was then they realized that they really had done so many evil things. That was the result of their deed. Villagers abhorred them and expelled them to live far away; even the millionaire was scared to live with them. So they had to live as the tramps with the leprosy until they passed away.

Soriya, her husband and her daughter became the millionaire in the village. Her family was very famous and respectful in the village. Since then, Soriya's family lived very happily until the end of their lives.

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