A boy is almost choked to death by his sister, as he accompanies eight young women on the wedding day of Nomanaso, one of the eight. She marries, and does not return to her home of birth until her fourth year of marriage. Then she finally takes her child and goes to visit her parents. On her way to her parents' place, she sleeps in a tree, and while in the tree she overhears a coven of witches talking; among them are her mother and sister. She hears them conspiring to kill her. When her mother puts poison in Nomanaso's food, the young woman secretly exchanges her food for her mother's, and her mother dies. When Nomanaso returns to her home of marriage with her child, she is accosted by Krwebede, a fantasy beast that forces her to give it all of her property, including her child. She is finally rescued by members of her husband's family, but she does not recover her child.