The Legend of Mosquito

There once was a husband and wife who loved each other dearly and affectionately.  

On the day of the couple's wedding, they had sworn to never leave one another. If one day something unfortunately happen where one of the couple died, then the other person would join and accompany the one dead to the underworld.

Not long after the couple was married, the young wife suddenly died of unknown causes to the shock of those around her. No one could have described the pain and sorrow of the husband. After the wife's death, the husband attempted suicide every chance he got but all attempts ended in failure under the careful watch of his family.

Near the day of the wife's burial, a monk showed up to tell the young man of a method to bring his wife back. The young man was eager to hear what this monk had to say so he listened to every single word and realized that the method was not difficult at all. All the husband had to do was to be a live healthy person who would persevere and then it would succeed.

What the idea was is that the live person had to cuddle with the deceased to transfer warmth to her three times a day, every day. If this method was followed exactly without stopping every day for three months and ten days, then the dead will come back alive.

The husband was very gracious to the monk and began to do exactly what he had said, with the hope of his love coming back to him. 

Each day he hugged his wife, trying to transfer his heat and warmth into a cold, dead corpse.

Only three days after he started, the corpse had begun to smell from decomposition. The smell spread throughout the neighborhood. Everyone around the area began to assemble into an angry mob and wanted the family to bury the body. As a last resort, the young man begged the town to help him build a boat so that he could take his wife to another place.

Many people from the village were more than happy to help him in this mission. Within half a day the husband was able to leave with his beloved wife's body. The boat continued to drift endlessly along the river and the husband still held onto his wife each day without stopping.

Although everything seemed hopeless, the man was filled with anticipation for his beloved, who looked as if she was just sleeping peacefully. After awhile on the boat, the couple had finally reached a new place with a green, open space where the husband began to set up camp and find food.

Coincidently while the young man was out getting wood, he met an old man with a cane wandering underneath the open sky as if he was just taking a leisure walk. From head to toe the old man didn't seemed out of the ordinary except for his hair and beard, which were white as snow. "Why would an old man be wandering out in a place like this?" Finding this odd, the young man pondered as to who exactly was this person standing in front of him. 

The only explanation the young widower had was that this old man must be Buddha! He then immediately got onto his knees and begged the elderly man to help his wife come back to earth. As expected, the old person was in fact Buddha himself. Buddha saw how much the young man pleaded and how dedicated he was towards his wife, so he decided to give the young man a chance.

All the young man had to do is prick one of his fingers and let exactly three drops of blood fall into his wife's mouth. Once the drops fell into the wife's mouth, she opened her eyes as if she just woke up from what was like a slumber and everything seemed like a dream.

Before the couple went home Buddha asked, "This young man has given you three drops of his blood so that you can revive. Then, can you tell me if you love him?"

As the young woman was about to reply, Buddha intervened, "No worries, if you no longer love your husband then all you have to do is return the three drops of blood to him." With that being said, Buddha saw how anxious the couple was to go home so he sent for his humongous crocodile to lead the way.

After half a day had gone by, the crocodile started to become hungry so the creature told the couple to wait for him on land and rest while he got some food to eat. Hand in hand, the husband and wife came across a small inn and entered it to order food. In the inn, there was a particular rich, handsome, young man who noticed the young wife.

The wife, herself, was a beautiful woman who could not be compared to anyone the rich man ever saw, which made her a desirable object. Since the rich man was a merchant, he began trying to "sell" his merchandise by showing the most expensive fabrics and jewelry while saying that the materials were in fact at a low price. All this was in order to catch the attention of the gorgeous wife.

He slowly got to the couple's table and said that his boat was near the inn itself, and it was filled with priceless artifacts for a very cheap price. However, when the husband heard this, the offer did not appeal to him one bit. Once done eating, the young man took his wife and left the inn, ignoring the persistent rich man and arriving to the spot where they were suppose to meet up with the crocodile.

The couple waited underneath the shade and talked for awhile then fell fast asleep. Hours went by, yet the husband and wife were still sleeping due to tiredness. Being completely unaware of what was going on around them, the couple did not realize the rich man followed them.

Waiting was what the rich man did until he was certain the husband was dead asleep. Then he crept toward the wife and woke her up. The rich man made her a tempting offer by saying that his boat was right there by the river and that he had the perfect jewelry that he wanted to give to her.

"My boat is only ten feet away. You do not have to go anywhere far and can come back to your husband at anytime." said the rich man.

Once the wife heard this, she began to sway to the rich man. She got up and followed the man to his boat. In the blink of an eye, under his master's order, the boatman began to leave shore and disappear from the horizon. During that same time the crocodile returned from the river depth and noticed only the husband was laying there sleeping. 

The creature woke the young man to ask where his wife had gone but the husband did not know how to answer. In his moment of confusion, the young man blamed the crocodile for eating his wife while he was sleeping. To prove his innocence, the crocodile told him to go inside his stomach and search to see if the woman was in there.

It turned out that all that was in the crocodile's stomach was a pile of fish bones and stones. Realizing he was wrong, the husband apologized to the creature and began searching for his wife on the beach. She was nowhere in sight and the husband began to despair as to where his wife could be.

Feeling sorry for the man, the crocodile told him he could get on his back and then they could search for the woman. In their search, the crocodile chased after any boat came across their path and asked if anyone had seen a beautiful young woman anywhere. After many detours, one boat told the young man and creature that the woman they had described just passed them. Hearing this, the crocodile swam after the boat as fast as he could.

When they arrived, both man and creature saw the young wife was in the rich man's boat.

The husband told the wife, "Wife, just jump to me... I cannot live without you... I will make you happy and we will live in luxury."

Yet the woman replied, "Go home without me. I have disappointed you. Please forgive me."

She then gave him a bag of gold telling him, "Take this bag and just think of me as already dead from that time ago."

Angry and disappointed, the young man threw the bag into the ocean and told the crocodile to take him to see Buddha. When Buddha met up with the two, he rushed the creature to chase after the rich man's boat so that the broken hearted man could ask for his three drops of blood back. After Buddha got done talking to the woman and made her prick her finger to give back the three drops of blood, she automatically fell down and died.

The rich man did not understand what was going so he panicked and threw the body into the ocean. Due to the blood miracle, the woman had been transformed into a mosquito. From then on, because of always lacking blood the mosquito has to search and steal a little bit from a person in order to live.

Hope you enjoyed the story.