The Feather of Glory ( a Novella )
By David Aoloch Bion
Chapter Fifteen
During dry or rainy season, all people had been used to gathering at Madut’s Luak. If there were no cases to judge, Madut the chief could have been playing theTokurou game. Or one of the elderly men could tell all sorts of stories of things that had happened. Stories that had many proverbs and sayings in the village had been drawn. As Madut luak had been all people, it occurred that nine magicians had gathered at theLuak one afternoon.
“Who is the most powerful magician in Riet clan?” one magician asked. Each magician claimed that he was the most powerful one. The magicians agreed that they should test themselves to see who was the most powerful.
The first magician said that they should meet in one place. Their calabashes were brought full of food. The first magician told the women to take the food to another Luak. When time came for eating, the first magician told his friends to go to the Luak where the food had been taken. The nine magicians went. When they were about to eat, the first magician said “ No, don’t start eating”.
“Why?” asked another magician
“We shall go back to Madut Luak” the first magician said
“Who will carry the food there” another magician asked
“Don’t mind of that. Leave that for me” the first magician said.
They had returned to Madut’s Luak. The first magician stood up and pulled the food from the other Luak to Madut’s Luak. On the second day, the second magician struck his spear in the air and hung in the air for ten hours. It remained in the air until he removed it in the evening.
On the third day, the third magician milked a young heifer which had never given birth until it gave out milk.
On the fourth day, the fourth magician put cow dung on water in the pond. He crushed the cow dung in the water, he dried the cow dung in water, he burnt the dung in the evening.
On the fifth day, the fifth magician brought a goat and he invoked his magic to kill the goat without a knife. He pleaded until the goat died.
On the sixth day, the sixth magician stood before his friends, raised up one of his legs. There was lightening and thunder. All the eight magicians fell down and were fainted.
On the seventh day, the seventh magician made rain pour on the other magicians’ herds and not on the whole cattle camps.
On the eighth day, the eight magician made mosquitoes to bite other magician’s herds but the whole cattle camps were not affected by mosquitoes.
On the ninth day, the ninth magician stopped all the other eight magicians from eating. The eight magician refused food for four days until they were about to die.
Madut rushed to the ninth magician and told him that people are dying and the clan will be in disaster. The magician listened to Madut.
“Eat your food my friends” said the ninth magician.
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