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ing on the gallows and the woman weeping below. When I asked, she said:
'This man is my husband. The king death, an innocent serve him meals..
has sentenced him to man. I have come to But as it is too high a spot, I can't reach.. If you can help me, I can feed him.'
I told her to stand on my shoulders. She stood but before that she took a promise from me that unless she completes her task, I should not took up. I stood like that but then I heard sound of her eating something. I looked up and what I found was a ghastly scene. She pierced with a knife pieces of flesh from that corpse and was eating them. Now my fear was turned into a wrath. I let her fall flat on the ground and without waiting for anything, I ran fast towards the city. She after ran me and only after cutting one of my loins, she returned. I was lying near the cite-gate reeling in pain. Some citizens came there and told
