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Overview

Jhades Jogi visits the seven brothers annually for alms. By obtaining the bonga wife’s arm tassel he compels her to follow him; when the brothers pursue, their arrows cannot harm him and he turns them into stones. In his own country he is a raja, and the abducted woman lives as his rani.

Questioned about his life, he first names a pumpkin vine and then his sword, but destroying either leaves him alive. He finally admits that his life lies in two Bohmae birds in a cotton tree in the sea. Breaking their wings and legs breaks his arms and legs, and removing their heads causes his head to fall. Even then the head rolls after the escaping mother and son, until the boy burns the birds and the following head enters the fire too. These powers belong to the tale’s named antagonist, not to jogis generally.

Petrifying sorcerer whose life rests in two Bohmae birdsSpecific 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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