Atondido Stories
until the flames shot their coloured tongues round the trunks of
the trees and high into the air. One fire was bigger than all, and
towards it the dancers edged Narahdarn; then the voice of the
mother of the Bilbers shrieked in the chanting, high above that of
the other women. As Narahdarn turned from the fire to dance
back he found a wall of men confronting him. These quickly
seized him and hurled him into the madly-leaping fire before
him, where he perished in the flames. And so were the Bilbers
avenged.
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