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    Once upon a time, the monster or ogre Shing’weng’we swallowed all the people in the world together with all the domestic animals except one pregnant woman who hid in a pile of chaff. Later this woman gave birth to a boy named Masala Kulangwa (whose name means “the smart or clever person who understands quickly”). When he grew up, he asked, “Mother, why are there only the two of us? Where are the other people?” She answered, “My dear one, everyone else was swallowed by Shing’weng’we. We are the only ones left.”

    From that day on the young man started looking for the monster. One day he killed a grasshopper and arrived home singing, “Mother, mother, I have killed Shing’weng’we. Rejoice and shout for joy.” But his mother answered, “My dear one, this is only a grasshopper, not the monster. Let’s roast it and eat it.”

    Finally the clever young man, Masala Kulangwa, found Shing’weng’we, and cut open the monster’s back. Out came his father along with his relatives and all the other people.