bajun

Updated: May 3, 2025

So Bajun had to set to work and cook the rice himself and got his dinner very late. Next day Bajun said to Jhore, "You don't know how to cook the dinner; I will stay at home to-day, you go to plough, and take a hatchet with you and if the plough catches in a root or anything, give a cut with the hatchet."

Cecil Henry Bompas - Folklore of the Santal Parganas

"You idiot," said Bajun, "I meant you to give a cut at the roots in which the plough got caught, not at the legs of the bullocks; how will you live if you do such silly things? You cannot plough, you must stay at home and cook the rice. I will show you this evening how it is done." So after that Jhore stayed at home and cooked.

Cecil Henry Bompas - Folklore of the Santal Parganas

While Bajun was away on this errand, Jhore took up the unguarded basket of rice and ran away with it; after going some way he sat down by the road and ate as much as he wanted, then he sat and called out "Is there anyone on the road or in the jungle who wants a feast?"

Cecil Henry Bompas - Folklore of the Santal Parganas