lukhu's

Updated: May 25, 2025

Nevertheless they cut it up, and Bhagrit divided the pieces among the workmen, but they were too frightened to take any and preferred to take the smaller fishes as their share. So he told Lukhu's wife to take up the pieces and wash them: and as she did so the song was heard: "Do not wash me, sister, Do not wash me, sister, The Ginduri fish is dying."

Cecil Henry Bompas - Folklore of the Santal Parganas