Anengu, the leopard cat, has nowhere to go – his home has been burnt to ashes and all his food with it. Hungry and weak, he asks Achighe, the otter, to help him steal some delicious chickens and eggs from a human village close by. Will this mission save the starving cat?
This story is adopted from the Sumi folktales documented by the British ethnographer J.H. Hutton in his book The Sema Nagas ( Macmillan and co., limited 1921)
Abokali Jimomi is the author of the picture books Bobo and the Worms and What's My Mother Tongue? published by Pratham Books. Her short story and poems have been published in the anthology by Zubaan Books, The Many That I...
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