Evening arrived.  Ture told his wife to remain at the mound near their home.  He and her mother would go to the more-distant mound.  Arriving there, Ture set about making a soft bed of leaves for himself on one side of the fire they shared and another for his mother-in-law.

At bedtime, each lay down.  Ture said, “Oh, mother, it would be safer for you to lie down behind me on my side of the fire.  There are too many wild animals roaming around.”  “Yes, my son,” she responded, “what you say is very true.”

Next he said to her, “Oh, mother, don’t lie with your back to me, an animal might pluck out your eye.”  So she switched round and lay beside him.  After she had done this, Ture said, “Oh, mother, don’t sleep with your loincloth on.  It might catch fire and burn you.”  “Yes my son,” the woman acknowledged, “that is true.”  So she removed it.  He then told her he was removing his own loincloth for the same reason.

Ture then suggested, “Oh, mother, put your arm over me because it is very cold, so we can’t sleep apart.”  So she stretched her arm over him.  As he did the same, they embraced.  While they were having sex, the termites flew away from the mound, which meant the adulterers had no termites to carry home with them.  They told Ture’s wife the termites had not been there, and she had no reason to doubt them.

The wife had collected plenty of termites, though, and she cooked them and shared them with her husband and mother.  But as they began eating, Ture’s genitals blurted out, “Oh! So you are eating termites, you who were so recently sleeping with your mother-in-law while the termites were flying away!”  His mother-in-law’s genitals answered, saying, “Can you deny this?”

Ture's wife was shocked and, grabbing her stick, she chased them furiously from the house.

Destroyed by Greed

More reprehensible still is killing one’s father.  Yet Ture does not flinch from patricide either, though this dreadful act was occasioned more by envy and his gullible streak than his often-displayed wickedness.  In keeping with his ambiguous character, Ture can at times be pretty stupid.

Ture was wandering around the countryside when he encountered a man who owned a horn stuffed with medicines.