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The Story of Hira and Lal is an Indian folktale published in The Modern Review, in 1907.The tale is a local form of the international cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom or The Search for the Lost Husband, in that a woman marries a man of supernatural origin (a snake or serpent), loses him and must regain him.
One day, the white snake sees a beggar on the bridge who has caught a green snake and wants to dig out the snake's gall and sell it. The white snake transforms into a woman and buys the green snake from the beggar, thus saving the green snake's life. The green snake is grateful to the white snake and she regards the white snake as an elder sister.
In gratitude, the green snake pledged to remain by the white snake's side forever and becomes her sworn sister. Bai Suzhen often calls her Xiaoqing or Qingmei (青妹, lit. '[Little] Sister Qing'). [7] On a visit to West Lake, she falls in love with a young man named Xu Xian and soon becomes his wife. In an alternative version of the story, Bai ...
The man pleads for his life in name of his three daughters, which piques the snake's interest in marrying one of the man's daughters. The man goes home and inquires his daughters which will go to the garden snake; the elder two refuse, while the youngest agrees. The girl marries the snake and lives in love and luxury.
Cyclist crosses paths with gator eating python in Florida Everglades That scene brings us back nearly 20 years to another python and alligator encounter in the Everglades. They were trying to ...
Tiffany Corlis, a local author in Queensland, filmed an epic incident on her mobile phone, as a snake coiled itself around the crocodile while both were in the water and the snake at the crocodile ...
A woman who was reported missing in Indonesia was found in a python’s stomach, according to officials. The 54-year-old left to work on a rubber plantation near Jambi, on the northeast coast of ...
After the snake eats, it escapes the room to lie under the woman's fence. The next morning, the woman's sons-in-law, the crow and the luam snake, come out of the house in their animal shapes, and wonder why their brother-in-law is locked in its room. A random crow flies in and sings to the woman about a snake by the fence.