- Raja Rasalu arrives at Nila city, finds woman weeping and laughing
- Giant comes to city every day to take a man, a buffalo, and a basket of cakes
- Woman has already lost 6 sons, about to lose seventh
- Rasalu offers himself in the 7th son's place
- Rides off to giants
- Possible idea: rewrite, change the giants to be more clever
- Rasalu arrives, giant reaches to eat horse but gets hand cut off
- Giant flees, meets sister and tells her what happened
- Giants flee to astrologer brother, ask him to check if Raja Rasalu was born
- Rasalu arrives before they can flee (after confirming that Rasalu was born)
- Giant tries to stall Rasalu, saying that the real Rasalu would have horse's heel-ropes bind the giants and the sword would cut the giants up of their own accord
- Change this to something less dangerous: ropes 'binding' sacks of 'stones' (actually the supplies they need to flee) to the giants' backs
- Seven remaining giants come up with the idea that only the true Rasalu would shoot an arrow that will pierce seven girdles, Rasalu shoots and pierces both the girdles and all the giants
- Change to something more useful for giants - Possibilities:
- Shoot a hole in the ground to find water (to provide for giants' journey)
- Create a cave with a single punch (for them to trick him into)
- Giantess fled into a cave, Rasalu makes a statue of himself to scare the giantess into never coming out and dying of starvation
- Giants could trick Rasalu into going into a cave/well/someplace where he would be distracted, then flee
- The original story could be the tale that Rasalu told when returning to make himself sound more impressive
Bibliography: How Raja Rasalu Killed the Giants from Tales of the Punjab by Flora Annie Steel. Web Source.
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