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THE COOKED CHILD 59
" After she had said this, that heavenly nymph became,
in virtue of a curse, the wife of that ascetic, having made
with him. 1
acquaintance with him by conversing So the
ascetic lived with that Vidyadhari, and on account of her
prophecy I conceived the hope of being reunited with you,
and I went on living there. And in a few days the heavenly
nymph became pregnant, and brought forth a child, and she
'
said to the ascetic : My curse has been brought to an end
If you desire to see any more of me,
by living with you. 2
cook this child of mine with rice and eat it ; then you will
be reunited to me.' When she had said this she went away,
and that ascetic cooked her child with rice, and ate it ; and
then he flew up into the air and followed her.
" At first I was unwilling to eat of that dish, though he
urged me to do so ; but, seeing that eating
supernatural powers, I took two grains
of it bestowed
of rice from the
cooking-vessel, and ate them. That produced in me the
effect that, wherever I spat, gold 3 was immediately produced.
Then I roamed about, relieved from my poverty, and at last
I reached a town. There I lived in a house of a courtesan,
1 The three India Office MSS. read samstavad.
2
Cf. Vol. Ill, p. 25, 25n 2 ; and for what follows Vol. II, p. 234.
3
Cf. Vol. V, p. 11, and the note on that page. In Gonzenbach's
Sicilianiscke M'drchen, Quaddaruni's sister drops pearls and precious stones
from her hair whenever she combs it. Dr Kohler in his note on this tale gives
many European parallels. In a Swedish story a gold ring falls from the
heroine's mouth whenever she speaks, and in a Norwegian story gold coins.
I may add to the parallels quoted by Dr Kohler, No. 36 in Coelho's Contos
Portugueses, in which tale pearls drop from the heroine's mouth. Tales of
gold- and jewel-spitting men or animals occur fairly widely in Russian folklore.
Thus, in a Votyak tale a horse produces silver coins ; and in another one, from
the same source, we read of a youth who, as a result of eating the heart of
a golden eagle, produces spittle which turns to gold (Coxwell, op. cit., pp. 588,
589, 590). In a Finnish tale the hero eats a little bird and spits gold in
consequence, and eventually becomes a tsar (Coxwell, op. cit., p. 644 ; see also
pp. 1029, 1032).
In the Kalmuck Siddhi-Kiir the poor man and his companion
spit forth gold and jewels (Jiilg, No. 2 ; Busk, op. cit., No. 2, p. 17 et seq. ; and
Coxwell, op. cit., p. 183 et seq.). In the Tibetan version of the story one
spits gold and the other turquoises (Francke, "Die Geschichten des toten
No-rub-can," Zeit. d. d. morg. Gesell., vol. lxxv, p. 72 et seq.).
Cf. Mahabharata,
Drona Parva, 55 ; and Santi Parva, 29. See, further, Ocean, Vol. IX, Addenda
et Corrigenda." n.m.p.