A man lived beside a mighty river, haunted by sadness: he had no children. One day, not knowing what else to try, he consulted an abéshu mulei, a well known sorcerer, and asked for help: he wanted a daughter who would free him from his loneliness. The sorcerer answered that he should go to his hut and bring all the palm oil he could gather.
The man returned full of hope. For many days he poured oil into a vessel until it was full. He took it to the sorcerer, who shaped a girl from that oil and gave her to him. Before handing her over, he warned him that the girl must never bathe in the river or stay long under the Sun.
The man took the girl home. He was happy with her and kept her in the hut, away from people's eyes. Every time he went hunting he asked her not to go out and, above all, to stay away from the river. She grew up amid the happiness of the one who believed her his daughter.
One time he had to go to his farm. The girl did not obey what he had asked and went near the river. A woman saw her there and, finding her alone, took her to her village, paying no attention to her tears. When he came back and saw the empty hut, the man went out in despair to look for her along rivers and mountains, without result. Little by little grief consumed him.
Meanwhile, the girl married the son of the woman who had taken her. The mother in law kept her shut in the new house for a long time, afraid that she would run away. One day she took her along to the farm where she worked, to watch her better. The heat was stifling. While the mother in law was harvesting, the young woman, sitting under a tree, watched in horror as her feet came apart and as her arms and the rest of her body lost their shape, while the ground soaked up oil. She could not scream, and she melted completely.
The mother in law came back and found only an enormous puddle of oil. In the village, when her son asked about his wife, she did not know what to say. Blind with rage, he killed his own mother to punish the carelessness that had taken from him the woman he adored.
What is received under a condition must always be kept under it. Ignoring the warning undoes what is most loved, and the anger that follows can destroy someone who did not deserve it.
Opolopo owó, a rooster, otí, oñí, earth from the foot of a tree, malaguidí, epó, orí, river water, palmiche, awadó, ekú, eyá, ashó ará and ashó timbelara. The little doll is made of wax or tallow.
It is said that the young person being raised will repay badly, and that nothing good should be expected from him. For this case there is also a work with a doll; it is in the full treatise.