Reading Notes: The Money and the Girl, Part A
Particularly this part of the story shocked me,
"At this, everyone looked up at the sky; then she took some sand which she had in the fold of her cloth and threw it into the air, and it fell into their eyes and blinded them.
While they were rubbing the sand out of their eyes, the girl leapt on to the pyre and was burned along with the monkey and died a sati. Her father and brothers were very angry at this and said that the girl must have had a monkey’s soul, and so she was fascinated by him — and so saying, they bathed and went home."
This story was anything but dull. To be honest I don't know the point of this story because what was the point of the girl killing herself. It kind of reminded me of Romeo and Juliet though. There aree two star-crossed lovers that can't be together because they are from different worlds.
While they were rubbing the sand out of their eyes, the girl leapt on to the pyre and was burned along with the monkey and died a sati. Her father and brothers were very angry at this and said that the girl must have had a monkey’s soul, and so she was fascinated by him — and so saying, they bathed and went home."
This story was anything but dull. To be honest I don't know the point of this story because what was the point of the girl killing herself. It kind of reminded me of Romeo and Juliet though. There aree two star-crossed lovers that can't be together because they are from different worlds.
Bibliography: The Monkey and the Girl by Cecil Henry Bompas (1909), link:http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/06/myth-folklore-book-folklore-of-santal.html
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