Tarikh-i Salatin-i Afaghina 5.4

5.4

When, after a lapse of some time, her husband returned, people came to condole with him; and they repeated the usual prayers. When they went away, the friendly neighbour said to him, "Come for a short time to my house to dissipate your melancholy." The merchant accordingly accompanied him, and after they had partaken of food, he related to him the whole history of the deaths of both the child and the young man, and said, "Pretend that you have hidden some gold, and that you want a mattock for the purpose of digging it up." He consented to do this, and the woman, much pleased when she heard about the treasure, readily brought the mattock, upon which he immediately began to dig up in the spot which had been indicated. When the woman perceived that her secret would become known, she fastened the door of the room in which the digging was going on with a chain, and set fire to the roof. When the flames burst forth, she began to cry out for her neighbours to come, as her house had caught fire and her husband was burning. By the time they arrived, the unfortunate man was roasted. The friend had even seen all this likewise, and having collected all the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, went with them to the kotwál, and explained what had occurred. On the receipt of this information, they opened the hole, and found the bodies of the youth and child. They then buried this bloody-minded woman up to the middle, in the centre of the bazar, and goaded her with arrows till she died.