The story of the snake Keng Kang 

In the past, on our land, there were no poisonous snakes and no venomous snakes, only Keng Kang snakes. Legend has it that in the beginning there were two people, a couple, a wife named Neang Ny and a daughter named Neang Et. The husband went to sell the beads and disappeared for a long time. One day, all the neighbors went to get firewood. As for Ny, they heard that they were going to go with them, so they took her as their child, and Ly knew how to enter the forest. See a large firewood. Ny Yok knows how to split firewood, but after splitting for a while, she falls into the snake hole. Ny looked and knew and Keng Kang spoke to the snake to let him know. The snake replied, "Oh! If you are my wife, then I will let you know. If you are not my wife, you will not be my wife. Let me know. ” She heard the snake say that, so because she was a pervert, she agreed! Unless you let me know, wait for the evening, let me call the boss. Pus Keng Kang heard Ny Tha, so let her know. Ny reprimanded "In the evening, let the boss come to call," and Ny took the firewood home with her. When it was evening, Ny used Meet as her child to call Keng Kang. She came to stand at the mouth of the snake hole and called, "Snake Keng Kang, Neang Ny, let her call!" " The snake heard and crawled out. When she saw the snake, she was scared and terrified, but she was afraid of her mother because her mother used to try to force her to take the snake Home. The snake was so big that it crawled on the broken grass all the way to the house and went up to sleep with Ny. "I have a husband, now he goes to sell beads every few years," Ny said to the snake. "How many days and how many months will your husband be here?" Asked Keng Kang. Ny replied, "I do not know how many months 

The next few days will not come. ”Keng Kang and Ny slept together until it was almost dawn, then Keng Kang said goodbye to her. Ny goes back to the cave. "If my husband comes, I will not let my boss call you. Do not come. If my husband does not come, I will not come," she said. Use the boss to call you, come. ”The snake went back to his cave. Every evening, Ny uses Meth to call Pous Keng Kang. She was afraid of her mother, so she called her mother, but she was afraid of the snake because it was so big and long. Another was angry because his mother had committed adultery with a snake. She reached the mouth of the cave and called out, "Snake Keng Kang, Neang Ny, let her call!" "Hey! "I did not go to my father, At beheaded me," she replied, "My father went to sell beads a few years ago. To. The snake heard her and said that, so she crawled out of the hole and kept going back and forth today. She had sexual intercourse with a snake until it started. After a while, Ny's husband came back from selling beads and saw that Ny's belly was big, he was skeptical, so he asked her as a child. "Her mother was having an affair with a rattlesnake, but in the evening she would call me today," she told her father. When her father heard her say this, he said to her, "In the evening you go and call that snake, and I will cut it down. At the door and hang up, do not let your mother hang up. As for At, when it was evening, she called the Keng Kang snake, "Keng Kang snake! Neang Ny to call. The serpent heard and replied, "Et et! That I did not go to Father Et still cut my neck. "My father went to sell beads a few years ago," she replied. Pous Keng Kang heard her say so, thinking that her father had not yet come from selling beads, he went like today. Her father, Et, was hiding a sword at the door. The snake crawled into the door a little bit, her father cut off the neck and cut a piece of tail to put on a piece of scab The head was placed on a branch, and the middle of the body was stripped of its skin and reprimanded Et. You know, but you have to leave the meat for your mother to eat. ” Her father washed away the blood of the snake. As for Ny, she did not know that her husband had killed a snake because
At that time, Ny did not go to ask relatives at home far away. In the morning, she cooked the snake meat and left it for Ny to eat. Ny saw the fat soup on both the plate and the pot and asked her, "What kind of meat do you have?" . "Pork," she said. Ny thought that it was pork, so she gave Miet a soup to eat. When Atus brought the soup to Ny, the mother, there was a crow. He saw the head of a snake resting on a branch. Eat the flesh of the snake, it says, "Come slowly, swallow, swallow your husband's flesh." Ny is eating ឮ crows like that, so she looks at the branch and sees the head of a snake crawling on the branch, and Ny misses Pity shed tears, but she did not dare to cry because she was afraid of her husband who was eating together. Her husband saw Ny in tears and asked, "Why are you in tears?" " Ny replied, "Eat hot food, hot soup, remind your children to shed tears." As for the crow, he kept saying, "Slowly, the clam swallowed her husband's flesh, put her head on the tree, put her tail on the scorpion." Ny looked at the scar and saw the tail of a snake crawling on it. Ny's husband knew that his wife was having an affair with a real snake and he was angry and wanted to kill Ny, but he did. Do not let Ny know. When Ny Pem Chas was about to give birth, her husband asked her to wash her hair at the lake, and when he reached the lake, he told his wife, Going away from home, we will wash our hair to have fun with only two people at a time. Ny did not know that her husband had killed her, thought she was taking her to wash her hair, and walked into the forest far away. When he saw a beautiful, beautiful field, the husband told his wife, "This port is happy, we should stop washing our hair there." Knowing he was a murderous husband, he sat and washed his hair at the bank. The husband pulled out a sword and cut Ny from behind, leaving her half dead. At that time, all the baby snakes crawled out of Ny's belly. Ny's husband also cut the baby snake with some swords, some not yet cut, crawled into the cracks, some dived into the water, some went In the forest. That is why there are so many kinds of snakes now.