The Evil Eye of Sani is the Fist story I decided to read in the Indian section of the Untextbook called
Bengali Folktales collected by Lal Behari Day.
- This story is different because I though that the main focus would be about Sani, or Lakshmi, but instead it is only indirectly about them.
- Sani curses Sribatsa and places his evil Eye upon him. Throughout the story he encounters jealous people, theifs, and evil men. They steal his wife and boat.
- Eventually Sribatsa meets a King and he tells him this whole story. The curse is lifted and Sribatsa is reunited with his lovely wife a pile of gold which he took from a cow.
- We also learn that he was the Child of Fortune, so that explains why he was even getting gold cow dung in the first place.
- I like the story " The boy whom Seven Mothers Suckled." It is a revenge story about an demon wife who tricks a King into blinding and killing his old 7 wives.
- Instead the Wives are just blinded and go into hiding. All of the wives bore a child, but only one of then the seventh one kept the child. Each of the seven mothers took care of the boy and he grew up to be very strong.
- In the End the boy received a bird that would kill her mother if harmed from the country of the demons. As he returned home there was a giant bird terrorizing the city. The boy insisted upon tearing the limbs of the small bird off to kill the big one. Instead it was the queen that suffered and then the boy was named the rightful heir, and the all lived happily.
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