There were two friends from mice, one of whom lived in the village where there’s countryside, vegetables, and crops, and the other lived in the city where there are buildings, towers, and markets. One day, the two friends met and each of them talked about his life. The village mouse decided to invite his friend from the city to see life in the countryside between the fields, to get to know his way of life and taste his food. The city mouse friend agreed immediately, as the idea amazed him, and indeed the two friends met the next day.
In the morning, the village mouse went to his friend from the city to eat food. They went to one of the fields where there was a lot of corn lying on the ground, and also some pumpkins and beets. The food was mixed with mud and didn’t please the city mouse. He said to the village mouse: Oh my friend, this food is delicious and tasty, but you eat it hungry and there’s danger around you. I prefer to eat my simple meal from pumpkins and beets in safety inside the field in the village, and you agreed to the village mouse friend’s offer to spend the night there immediately.
In the morning of the next day, the village mouse went to his city friend and took him to one of the cellars for fun, which the city mouse had told him was his secret place. There were large quantities of food in it, jars full of flour, figs, and dried raisins in them. The city mouse was amazed and terrified of the place, as it was a narrow, dark dungeon. Then a person entered from the cellar to take food, and the two friends hid in a small hole in the corn. The person left the cellar, and the two friends came out to eat the delicious and tasty food. After the two friends finished eating, the city mouse said to the village mouse: Let’s play the bracelet and well game, in which each girl of us is supposed to throw her bracelet in the well, and whoever takes her bracelet out first is the winner. The village mouse submitted to the girls’ words and threw her bracelet, but she was surprised that the girls didn’t throw their bracelets, but they threw stones instead.
The girls started mocking the village mouse and making fun of her, then ran toward the village without turning to her pleas and crying for the sake of her bracelet. The village mouse remained crying alone, not knowing what to do, until a strange wind blew upon her, a storm followed by another, and suddenly a large-sized, ugly-faced monster appeared. He said to her: Don’t be sad, Princess Rose. I will bring out your bracelet now.
Indeed, the monster drank all the water of the well and took out the bracelet for the village mouse, but instead of letting her go to the village, he took her with him to his palace in the middle of the dark forest, and the whole village stayed up searching for her but to no avail. Sadness descended into the hearts of everyone who knew the village mouse.
The village mouse’s people went to an old wise man in the village and asked him about the village mouse’s place and how to reach her. He told them she was with the monster and ordered her brothers to take with them to the forest a white bull. When the bull approached the palace at night, they were supposed to slaughter the bull and scatter its blood in every place in the palace, cut their sister’s hair and escape with her. So the brothers went to the forest and did what the wise man ordered them. They cut the village mouse’s hair and carried her far from the monster’s palace. But in their haste, the youngest brother forgot to scatter the blood on a stone in the palace, so the stone started hitting the monster’s chest until he woke up and started chasing the village mouse and her brothers, with fire flying from his eyes.
When the monster caught up with them, the eldest brother drew his sword and struck off the monster’s head. Another head appeared to him in a blink of an eye. The brother kept cutting off heads one after another until he reached the sixth head. With the appearance of the seventh head, the monster escaped returning to his palace.
When they reached the village in safety, the old wise man ordered the eldest brother to return to the forest and cut off the monster’s seventh head so it wouldn’t stand up again. It was only days until the village mouse’s brother returned carrying the head of the evil monster, which was burned and its ashes scattered in the valleys.
From that time, the monster disappeared and no news was heard about him in the village or the neighboring villages. The village mouse lived a quiet life and went out for walks without fear. Then she married a young man named Wad al-Numeir to become after that a mother and grandmother to all the beloved people of Sudan, and she would tell her story to her grandchildren every day before sleep.