Tale 20 — The snake's curse and the snake mound
Before the ill fortune came, while stirring the fodder a large snake, a serpent, often a spirit in disguise, appeared, and though the master told them to stop, they struck it dead. After that many more snakes came out, and the men, half for sport, killed them all. At a loss over what to do with them, they buried them outside the house and made a snake mound.
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