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Overview

Two Bohmae birds live in a cotton tree in the middle of the sea and jointly hold Jhades Jogi’s life. A boy reaches them on an alligator and asks how three women can be freed from objects stuck to their bodies. The birds explain that the women must reverse their failures of hospitality and generosity. As the birds approach to answer, he captures them.

Injuries to their wings and legs reproduce themselves in the Jogi’s limbs, and their beheading removes his head. Burning the birds finally destroys the head that continues pursuing the boy. Their designation is retained from the English translation without assigning a modern bird species. The narration presents consultation of them as an oracle; it does not say they are the Jogi’s children or transformed human souls.

Oracular bird pair containing a sorcerer’s external lifeSpecific Santal narrative witness
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Origins & earliest records

Santal Parganas, eastern India; source-specific Santali storytelling

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Records & interpretation

Complete relevant tale directly read with existing collection preface and narrator-chain record.

Selected bibliography

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    Folklore of the Santal Parganas

    Cecil Henry Bompas, translator; O. Bodding, collector; Sagram Murmu, principal Santali writer credited in preface · 1909

    LXXIII, The Seven Brothers and the Bonga Girl, pp. 218–226

Family & connections

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Primary records and illustrations

Direct primary record

Cecil Henry Bompas, Folklore of the Santal Parganas (1909)

Part I, Santal folktales. LXXIII, The Seven Brothers and the Bonga Girl, pp. 218–226

Entire relevant tale read in retained primary transcription, including ending. Santal religious category retained; narrator’s particular transformations and family relations distinguished from general beliefs, ritual prescriptions or inferred outcomes.

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References

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  1. Historical translation of collected narrativesBompas, Folklore of the Santal Parganas (1909), LXXIII, The Seven Brothers and the Bonga Girl, pp. 218–226Research access: 2026-10-05

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