Reading Notes: The Gold-Giving Serpent ; Part B

Title: The God-Giving Serpent
http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/03/indian-fairy-tales-gold-giving-serpent.html


There once was a farmer that was going poor due to the land not giving back. One day it was really hot and he took a nap beside a tree. A snake came out of an ant hill and the man thought to himself, "This must be the guardian of the land. I will worship him so that the land can pay me back." The man took a bowl of milk to the the hole and the snake came out. The snake left gold by the bowl.

The next day the man went with his son to take another bowl of milk to the snake. when the snake came out the son hit the snake on the head trying to kill it to collect the gold in the snake's hole. The snake came back and bit the boy and he died. The man had a funeral for his son and put his ashes near the land.

The next day the man went back to give some milk to the snake. The snake gave the man a peal and told him, 'Tis greed that brings you here, and makes you even forget the loss of your son. From this time forward friendship between us is impossible. Your son struck me in youthful ignorance, and I have bitten him to death. How can I forget the blow with the cudgel? And how can you forget the pain and grief at the loss of your son?"

"Come back no more." said the snake. The man went home with the pearl cursing his son for what he had done.

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