Sunday, September 22, 2019

Reading Notes: Congo, Part A

Reading Notes on The Jealous Wife; This story is part of the Congo unit. Story source: Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort by Richard Edward Dennett (1898)


(Fishing; Image from Pixabay)

  • Two wives were preparing native bread for their husbands while they went to trade for six months
  • The husbands instructed them to protect the children
  • Wives wanted to get fish for their husbands when they returned (one stayed with kids while the other went)
  • One of the wives was jealous of the other son, so while his mom was out fishing, she went and killed him with a razor blade, and the other child woke up and ran out of the house in horror from what he had seen/heard.  
  • When the wife woke up to go look at the son she was jealous of again, she realized she killed her OWN son (this is a great example how jealousy is the thief of joy, a great lesson all should learn).
  • The wife took her dead son and disappeared into the woods, leaving her husband dazed and confused and he sent a search party out to the woods to look for her
  • One of the men finds a women rocking a child asking him why he keeps sleeping this way and why he can't recognize that it is his mom holding him at that moment
  • The man tells the husband and they both go back to look at the wife
  • When they found out that she really did kill the son, the wife was killed and burned to ashes 
  • This is a very morbid story, but I think a good plot twist at the end would be if the mother committed suicide and in turn this let her child come back to life because giving up her own life is the price she would have to pay to get her son's life back

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