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falls in love with her. His family is dismayed and eventually make the couple drunk and carry the lover away. Sassui finds herself alone in the morning. She follows the traces of a Baloch caravan until she perishes in the desert.
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to visit her beloved Mehar who tends the cattle on an island Eventually her sister-in-law discovers the secret and substitutes a pot of unbaked clay for a pot she used to carry as a kind of life vest, and Sohni drowns.
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Many of these folktales, especially those that deal with love stories, are well known in Sindh. Among them, the story of
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emphasizes the prowess and generosity of King Diyaach, who severed his head and gave it in alms to a bard, Bijal.
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is probably the most famous. In it, a beautiful Indus girl named Sassui, brought up by a washerman's family in
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There is also the tragic story of Sohni who, married to a man she dislikes. She swims every night across the
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fell in love with a fishermaid, Nuri, who, by virtue of humility and softness, became his favourite queen.
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With the publication of this seventh volume, a total of 328 tales would have been laid under contribution.
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All these stories and many more have been enriched in the course of time and provide imagery for
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province abounds in fairy-tales and folktales that form its folklore. Some of these folktales (
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Recently, these folktales have been compiled into seven volumes titled
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Märchen aus Pakistan, Aus dem Sindhi ubersetzt und herausgegeben
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