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Overview

Angidikely enters a sequence of brothers preparing food during their journey to seek wives. When the first cook’s rice and goose are almost ready, it demands to eat and fights him. After winning, it pulls out his armpit hair and makes a cord with which to bind him. It eats its fill, urinates in the rice water, fouls the remaining food and calls the others to eat before departing. The same failure overtakes the first five sons of the family in succession. The source names the opponent but gives no detailed bodily portrait in the selected episode.

The youngest, Faralahy, prepares his own rope before the visitor arrives. He wins their fight, binds Angidikely and hides the captive beneath leaves. His brothers think the antagonist has not come and begin their meal, while the bound figure struggles under the cloth in which it is rolled. Faralahy first dismisses their questions, then reveals his prisoner after they have eaten. Angidikely responds with challenges about making a waterfall and doing so with large stones.

One of the brothers blocks the river with a foot and produces a fall of water. A large stone is then pushed with a foot to obstruct the river; it sinks into the ground and is crushed. The concluding explanation links plains to the crushed pieces and surviving villages to places those pieces did not reach. Those landscape feats are performed by the challengers in the text, not by a freed Angidikely. The episode does not give a final escape or execution of the captive. Renel labels it Betsimisaraka and collected at Fetromby, without naming its individual contributor.

Hair-made cordWrestling challengeMeal theftCapture by youngest brother
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Origins & earliest records

Renel 1910, Contes de Madagascar, première partie, tale 19, pp. 114–116. The heading gives the regional label and locality. Introduction V–VIII describes Malagasy teacher intermediaries, anonymous tellers/transcribers and French translation. Henri Rajaofèra is credited for general Betsimisaraka translation help, not specifically assigned as this narrator.

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Records & interpretation

Complete tale 19 and local heading read; relevant source-chain introduction V–VIII read. Original notebooks were not independently inspected. Character powers and the complete ending remain confined to the selected episode.

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  1. 01

    Contes de Madagascar, première partie: Contes merveilleux

    Charles Renel, editor and translator; Malagasy collection intermediaries · 1910

    Tale 19, pp. 114–116, complete, with regional/local collection heading; introduction V–VIII source chain.

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  1. Historical collected French narrativeRenel 1910, tale 19Research access: 2026-10-05

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