A Balinese Folktale: Amad and Mohamad
Sunday, July 29th, 2007 by Sidarta WijayaNakoda prince of Sam dreamed of a white dove with red spots. He asked a priest if this was lucky or unlucky. ‘Very lucky indeed’ said the priest ‘if you could obtain such a bird.’ The king inquired everywhere and was told that there was a white dove with red spots in the house of the widow Kasihan. He at once went to her house but she refused to give him the bird, because it was the pet of her two sons Amad and Mohamad. The prince was wretched and complained to the priest who gave him a love-spell so that when he went back to the widow’s house she at once fell madly in love with him. But he would only consent to sleep with her if she would kill the bird and give it to him.
When Amad and Mohamad came home they looked every where for their bird but could not find it. Then the servant told them how it had been killed by Nakoda, who was inside sleeping whit their mother. The children found bird lying dead on the roof Amad ate the head and Mohamad the heart and they both ran far away into the forest.
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