Ethiopian Folktales

Narrator Unknown

There was a woman who had a puppy called K’azit. The puppy tormented the woman by eating all the food in the house, so she was always upset by the thieving puppy.

One day she put the puppy in the mortar and went to bring the pestle and when the puppy realised he jumped out of the mortar and she picked up her baby and put it in the mortar.

So the woman kills her baby and the puppy watched from a distance and when she killed the baby she said, “I am revenged.”

At the end of the story, the narrator says:
Ane Kazit.
Tebel lasit.