“On a rainy night, a little boy was crying. His mother kept him outside the house. After a while someone came to borrow the hunigendi, for scraping coconut, the mother without opening the door said, “It is standing next to the house wall, so take it. The person took the boy and walked him through the Mashigando. At times the boy was neck deep in water…. the song continues to tell of the places the child saw that night. At dawn the person, who is actually a “ferithaa”, a non- human spirit, returned the child back to his home. The fereithaa asked for a gift in return , and the boy gave the fereithaa one of his eyes.”
The Huvadhoo atoll Athelveshi
as narrated by Dhon Aisaage Saudiyya & her husband Nooh