Reading A:
· The god of bad and good luck fell out of heaven together.
· They were fighting over who was higher and because they were on the equal ground the gods decided to let humans decide.
· Wise and rich man named Sribatsa.
· They wanted to go to him to decide who was higher.
· He didn’t want to choose because one would have a grudge against him.
· He got a gold and silver stool made and told them to sit on it.
· He chose the good luck to sit on the gold stool and so the other was mad.
· He tried to run away from his wife so she wouldn’t get the bad luck either but she followed him.
· They ran and put their money in the mattress and carried the mattress on their journey.
· They tried crossing a river and the water pushed the mattress and consumed it.
· They went into a town to make money and found some woodcutters.
· They were cutting good trees and getting a lot of money for it.
· The other woodcutters planned on a plot out of jealousy.
· The same thing happened with the weavers.
· People caught his wife and captured her.
· He then followed the stream to try and find her.
· He found a cow he milked and then he realized it pooped gold.
· She was beautiful but prayed to be ugly and so it was granted.
· She was thrown to the cargo room.
· He floated until he got to a garden.
· The king saw that the garden became flourished with plants and so they rescued his wife and she became beautiful again.
· The king gave him everything and he was good again
Bibliography:
Bengal: The Evil Eye of Sani
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