Episode Details

Two famous thieves give up their trade and try honest work — one to water a champaka plant that drinks a hundred buckets and is never wet, the other to tend the most vicious cow in the country. Honest labour drives them back to their old skills, a jar of gold mohurs under the plant, a stolen shoe on the highway, and a funeral that neither of them will forget. The fathers' adventures, complete in themselves.

From Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day (1883), public domain; told in a modern in-house rendering.

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00:00 The Adventures of Two Thieves

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