The purpose of the story is to show us how someones world can be turned upside down when someone who you thought was faithful turns out to be the opposite. In the story two powerful kings who are brothers find out that their wives have been having affairs with people who don’t have a fraction of their power. Both kings were cheated on and killed their wives and the person that they slept with and decided to leave the palace and see if anyone in the world had such bad fortune as they did. They found a demon carrying a woman that he stole on her wedding day. The demon had her in a glass box with four locks on it and this is because he tried to preserve her virginity not knowing that she actually is not a virgin. The two kings are forced by the woman to make love to her while the demon is asleep. This was proof to the kings that they were not the only ones with misfortune seeing that the woman has slept with 100 men. They went back home and said to each other to only sleep with a woman for one night and then to kill them so they wont get cheated on.

The lesson for the listeners of this story is to stay faithful to the one you choose to marry. The story does make it seem as if women are the bad ones here but it goes both ways. The storyteller tries to show us that maybe people are not meant to be with only one person and they are polygamists. There is moral and law that goes when you marry someone. The moral part is to stay faithful and true to your partner and the law part sort of forces us to stay with one person where if you are unfaithful you will lose your house or kids to your partner. Maybe people are not meant to be monogamists.

Some questions i had about this story:

1) Are the slaves of the king also his sexual partners ?

2) Why was the younger brother so happy when he found out his brother was being cheated on?  i understand that he felt that he wasn’t the only one but he wasn’t a bit sad about it just happy.

3) Why would the demon release the woman on land and keep her locked in the middle of the sea where no one can reach in anyway ?