Continuation of Jana Ouchu Dem The King then with a heavy heart sent off his daughter with the Minister to her future home with rich gifts. On his way back, the Minister went to bid goodbye to his magician lover, Jana Ouchu Dem. However, she would not let him get off easily after all the trouble she had taken to please him and keep him. She invited the Minister to sit for a meal. True to her magic skills, in a fleeting moment, she dug the small space in front of her oven, sowed seeds, grew rice seedlings, uprooted them, dug the space again, watered it, then transplanted the rice seedlings, harvested it and had rice ready to be cooked. She then cooked the rice and fed it to the Minister. As he finished eating, she took out a wooden ladle and hit the Minister across his forehead saying ‘leave your human form and turn into a Donkey’. So everyday Jana Ouchu Dem turned the Minister into a Donkey and at night changed his form again into human and kept him in her bed. This went on for a long time. In the meantime, the Princess with no one to care for her ran out of her possessions and wandered around places. At one time, she ended up as a shepherd to a flock of sheep of all colours. One day miserable and sad, she took the sheep to cross a small river but animals fell into the river and she tried saving the sheep crying out ‘oh my black and white sheep’. It is said that we have only black and white sheep now because the Princess was unable to save others with different colours. One day, while Ouchu dem was cooking, she left the kitchen for a brief moment. The Minister took the opportunity of hiding the ladle. After both of them had finished eating, the Minister took out the ladle and hit Ouchu Dem across her forehead and turned her into a pig. The Minister was then able to escape the clutches of the Sorceress. Immediately after his escape, the Minister went to look for the Princess and after searching for days and nights, he came across her playing a violin and begging from house to house. The invention of violin known as Pchiwang in Dzongkha is also attributed to her. After a long journey, the pair finally reached Tibet and the Minister presented her to the King. The King married her and slowly turned his affection towards the younger Queen which evoked anger and jealousy of the first Queen. To make matters worse, the young Queen soon became pregnant. The older Queen in collision with her maids devised a way to eliminate her competitor. The older Queen also feigned pregnancy and the sizes of stomach of both the Queens grew at the same rate, one naturally and the other stuffed with clothes. While the younger Queen fell unconscious during her son’s birth, the maids of the older Queen took away the child and replaced it with a puppy. The child was handed over to the older Queen which she claimed as her own. The older Queen then summoned the King to their bedsides and showed her son and pointed out that the other wife had given birth to a puppy. The first Queen then demanded that the younger wife be exiled because no human was capable of giving birth to an animal and only someone of Demon origin would do that. The king was sad but with evidences of unhuman activities, he was forced to isolate the younger Queen in a barn with only one maid. Meanwhile the child grew up into a young man and because of the way his ‘supposed mother’ treated him; he became aware that the she was not the real mother. He started rejecting her fake affection and the Queen out of anger blurted out ‘Lueley masha bu men, Louley mabey ghi men’ ( a child is not a child if one did not give birth, a knife is not a knife if it is not drawn from the tunic waist). The young man was able to get a confession from the Queen about how she tricked the younger Queen out of jealousy and that his real mother was the lady in the barn. The King was then informed about the manipulative acts carried out by the first Queen. The younger Queen was restored to her position as a Queen once more and even though the King was angry with the first Queen, the younger one is supposed to have forgiven her and led a peaceful life after that.
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