There once lived a little girl named Maincha whose mother passed away when she still a child. Soon after her father remarried and they had a daughter. Both the daughters livers were vastly different, while Maincha would do all the housework and get old clothes with little food, her sister was showered with love by both her step-mother and father, she would wear best clothes and get most delicious food.

But despite such treatment, Maincha was growing up healthy and happy which made her step-mother suspicious. Maincha did not have much food so how was she so healthy?

One of the Mancha’s household’s duties was take care of a goat, Dhon Chlecha whom she was very attached with. She would take her out to gaze everyday and would roam in the forest, the step mother felt that this must be the time Maincha was secretly eating out.

One day, Maincha’s step-mother asked her daughter to follow Maincha when she goes out and find out from where she is getting the food. Maincha took goat to the jungle without knowing her sister was following her at some distance. Maincha stopped at what she thought was a secluded place where Dhon Chlecha spit out the food she had saved for Maincha, her step-sister was astonished.

Maincha’s sister approached her and asked what she is doing. Maincha stopped eating and told her not to tell this secret to anyone, she also gave half of the food to her in exchange for keeping this secret. She agreed but as soon as they went back, her sister told everything to her mother.

The step-mother understood what was happening and planned to kill Dhon Chlecha. Maincha wanted to stop her step-mother and plead for Dhon Chlecha but Dhon Chlecha stopped her and whispered, “Nobody can stop the future”. Instead, she asked her to bury her bones in the garden where a tree will grow.

The step-mother prepared a feast by the goat meat and even invited Maincha. But Maincha was in no mood to eat so she made of excuse of being ill and slipped away. Once no one was around, Maincha quickly collected the bones and buried it in the garden.

Time passed by and the a sampling turned into a huge tree which produced ‘Yoman’. Maincha would often get on the tree and pluck some ‘yoman’, everyday. On a sunny morning, Maincha was sitting on the tree branch and eating the fruit like always when two lakhe (demons) approached the tree. They asked her to throw them some fruits as well.

Maincha kindly threw some but instead of catching them, lakhe let them fall on the ground. The two demons asked Maincha to come down and give them sweets instead. When un suspecting Maincha came down, the demons tricked her to go to their house.

Two demons asked Maincha to prepare chatamari (bread made of rice) and went to take a bath. As Maincha was cooking, suddenly a mouse appeared and asked her to give him some food, Maincha gave him some. The mouse again asked her for a food, Maincha gave again before mouse asked again for the third time. Maincha never got angry and handed him some more food.

After eating the third time, the mouse told her that the two people in the house are demons and they are planning to eat her, he told her a way so she could find all the treasures in the house and run away. Maincha followed the steps and quickly gathered the treasures before escaping.

By the time the two demons came back after finishing their bath, Maincha had long ran away. Maincha went back home with arms full of gold and silver. Maincha’s father and step-mother were shocked on seeing sparkling treasures. On being questioned about the origin of treasures, Maincha told them everything from beginning to end.

On hearing the story, the step-mother suddenly had an idea and the next day she asked her daughter to climb up the tree. When the two demons came, the step-sister followed them back to their home.

As she was cooking, the mouse came and she fed him, the mouse asked again and she fed him again. But when the mouse asked for the third time, she got angry and killed the mouse.

Later the two demons came back and killed the girl. The next morning, the step-mother was waiting for daughter when a crow said her daughter was killed.

The step-mother ran out of the house and saw her daughter’s bones in the garden under the big tree. The step-mother was devasted but this time her husband ignored her since now he now favors Maincha because of her treasures.