Wednesday, November 26, 2014

THE KENG KANG SNAKE

Long time ago, there was a man with his wife named NEANG NY and a daughter named NEANG ETH. The name was a beads trader. At that time, there were no other snakes, except for KENG KANG SNAKE (a kind of black and white snake).

One day, the villagers gathered to dig bamboo shoots and NEANG NY did go with her daughter either.

Reach in a Jungle, NEANG NY came across a bamboo shoot III a bamboo bush. She immediately dug the bamboo shoot. Incidentally, while she was digging the bamboo shoot, her digging hoe slipped from its handle and fell into a hole with no appearance. NEANG NY tried to look into the hole for her digging hoe and saw KENG KANG SNAKE nearby. She then said to the snake, "Huh, KENG KANG SNAKE! May you pass me the digging hoe?" The KENG KANG SNAKE replied, "If you agree to be my wife, I will help to pass your digging hoe back".

Due to her fool, NEANG NY incidentally answered, "OK, I agree to be your wife and this evening I will order my daughter-ETH to call you in". Soon after promising, both NEANG NY and her daughter returned home.

At dusk, NEANG NY ordered her daughter to call KENG KANG SNAKE in due time. NEANG ETH reached to the top of hole and called loudly, "KENG KANG SNAKE NEANG NY calls you". The snake heard and crawled toward NEANG NY with great anxiety. After seeing the giant snake, NEANG ETH was quickly dying running away.

When the KENG KANG Snake arrived, Neang Ny told, “Presently, my husband is not here, he went to trade beads. He would come back once for every two or three year”. The KENG KANG snake slept with with Neang Ny until the dawn, before leaving, Neang Ny commanded, “You can come here unless my daughter goes to invite you. But when my husband is here, I will not order Neang Eth to call you”.

The KENG KANG SNAKE slept with NEANG NY until the dawn while NEANG ETH was very frightened and slept alone nearby the house.

Actually, NEANG NY always ordered her daughter to call the KENG KANG SNAIK every day. Although NEANG ETH was very scared of snake, she still committed with her mother order but she did feel angry with her mother having love affairs with the snake.

Every evening, NEANG ETH went to the hole and called, "KENG KANG SNAKE, NEANG NY calls you". The snake crawled up and replied, "ETH! Isn't your father there? Or, he will kill me". "My father went to trade the beads and came back home for every two or three years, he did not come yet", ETH added.

The KENG KANG SNAKE came again and again, NEANG NY got pregnant Everyday NEANG NY was worried because when he.!; husband came he would kill her.

Her husband came and saw her with pregnancy, he secretly asked the daughter, "ETH huh! Why is the matter with your mother's stomach?". The daughter responded, "Pa! Mother has fallen in love with The KENG KANG SNAKE and she orders me to call the snake in every day".

The father heard that and told the daughter, "This evening you have to call the snake normally and don't let your mother know this. OK?"

In dusk NEANG ETH walked forward the hole and called, "KENG KANG SNAKE, NEANG NY calls you." The snake replied, "ETH! IfI go, your father will cut my head." NEANG ETH responded, "My father went to trade the beads and came back home every two or three years, he did not come yet".

The KENG KANG SNAKE heard and crawled happily since it thought that NEANG NY's husband did not come yet.

For NEANG NY's husband, he was standing nearby the door and ready with a knife in his hand. Soon after the KENG KANG SNAKE was crawling into the house, the man did not hesitate to chop the KENG KANG SNAKE into three pieces.

Due to being in love affairs with other wife, the husband killed the KENG KANG SNAKE cruelly and the snake died bitterly.

After that, the NEAG NY's husband took the tail of the snake hung on a jujube tree and dried the head on shelve while the body was taken to make food without letting NEANG NY know.

NEANG NY's husband quickly cleaned the blood stained on the TlCTO and everywhere. At a meal time, NEANG NY asked her daughter loudly, "ETH, ha! What a nice smell of the meal is". ETH replied, "Yes, Mum pork soup."

With her hunger, NEANG NY ate with her family. At that time, there was a crow on jujube tree near tail of the snake said, "KALOV KALOV KHLEM KHLORM, eating your own lover's meat..."

Neang Ny heard that and turned and saw the tail of snake on the branch of jujube tree and the head of snake on the shelve. Since she felt pity to the KENG KANG SNAKE, her tear fell on her cheek and she just whimpered because her husband was next to her.

Then her husband ask her, "Why are you whimpering?". "The rice is hot, so is the soup thus, making me teat”, she stifled.

Neang NY’s husband realized that his wife did get pregnant with the KEN KANG SNAKE and he was very embarrassed. When the delivery wad due, he persuaded his wife to visit a jungle near the pond far from the village.

NEANG NY did not know the killing plan of her husband. She thought that her husband did love her. She therefore followed him. They stopped and relaxed under a tree. It was a good chance for NEANG NY's husband. He pushed NEANG NY a tree trunk with hanger.

NEANG NY slid and her stomach broke. Immediately, there were huge numbers of snake crawled from her stomach. Some crawled into the jungle; pond and several were cut cruelly by her husband. Therefore, there are many species of snake on our planet up to now.

- THE END -

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