Story source: Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort by Richard Edward Dennett (1898).
From Congo Unit - Ngomba's Balloon
Story has overtones similar to 1001 nights which I am more familiar with - beginning starts out with meeting at lake and an agreement/bargain to not get murdered. The murderer husband turns out to be pretty okay for a murderer but the wife doesn't want to stick around forever, stuck waiting on the murderer husband to come back from his murderer business.
She gets the people around her in on it and the slowly build a balloon to load up and escape. The murderer husband gets suspicious for several days but she distracts him with food and dancing. On the last day when she is asleep she can't distract him so he decides to murder her with a hot wire up the nose.
At this point her sister, who is now a cricket, comes in and chirps so the murder husband will dance and be distracted. So no one gets murdered! Once he leaves again in the morning, they load up in the balloon and go to her hometown. Her family is like whoa where you have been?! Then the murder husband shows up and her family is like uh oh. But they trick him, get him tossed in a hole and he gets murdered instead. Everyone doesn't live happily ever after, but most of the folks live so that's pretty happy!
"Highland Village Balloon Festival" by TexasEagle is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
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