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Finally Sopfünuo was compelled to part with him. One night she carried her child and left her husband's house for her ancestral home holding a burning pine-torch. On the way across the difficult terrain, she was hit to death by a spike of an evil spirit. She left her child behind her. And after sometime the child was pierced to death by a rib bone of his mother decomposing corpse as she fell on it. They both got metamorphosed into stones of human shape.
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Sopfünuo was a beautiful girl of Rüsoma village. She was wedded to a man of another village. As a wife, she reserved unswerving loyalty to her husband. She dressed him up with beautiful clothing. Some women could not conceal their envy of his marriage success. They instigated him to divorce his wife.
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