A fierce beast had a town terrified; its last victim was a poor woman gathering firewood. A relative of hers, hardly more than a boy, thought it over: «if nobody beats that beast, one day my mother will fall into its claws». He took a spear and a country harp and went into the forest. Beside the river, the beast asked him: «what are you doing in my kingdom without trembling?» — «I came to hunt small animals; the harp is to cheer my loneliness with music». Curious, the beast asked him to play while it bathed: it was carried away by the melody, and the boy took the chance to ready his bow and arrow — the shaft struck it mortally in the heart. In the town they did not believe him: nobody could believe such courage in a boy — until they reached the river and saw the beast with the arrow in its heart.
A fierce animal had the people of a town and the area around it terrified. It killed often, and its latest victim was a poor woman who had gone to the jungle for firewood for the fire. A relative of hers, a boy who was almost a child, heard the sad news and stayed there thinking: "If that beast is not beaten, any day now my mother could end up in its terrible claws." He went from thought to action: he grabbed a spear and a country harp and with those instruments he went out to the woods to look for the beast.
He was at the riverbank when he saw the terrible animal coming. The beast met the child and wanted to know: "What are you doing in my kingdom without trembling?" Without flinching, the boy answered: "I am a son of the nearby town and I came to hunt small animals." The beast insisted: "But what do you want those small instruments for, they look harmless?" The child answered again: "To cheer up my loneliness with music." That made the beast curious, and it offered him: "Well, my friend, while I bathe, you play that instrument." With those words it dove into the river, and the child began to draw sweet sounds out of the harp. Such delicate music left the animal in ecstasy; the child used that softened moment to get bow and arrow ready, and he shot the dart, which wounded its heart to death.
Happy with his feat, he went back to the town and gave the people the news of the victory over the fierce animal, inviting them to enjoy it with him. Nobody believed him: none of them could get it into their head that a child could gather that much courage. The surprise grew when they got to the river, where the curious ones saw that the feared animal was lying there, with the arrow stuck in its heart. Note: when the ebbó is finished, the rooster goes to Eshu, the doves to Oshosi and the hens to Oshún; the rest of the ingredients are asked of Ifá.