Suri Ikun and the Two Magic Birds: An Indonesian Folktale from East Nusa Tenggara

Chapter 1: A Big Family in Timor

Once upon a time, on the island of Timor, in East Nusa Tenggara, there lived a farmer with his wife and fourteen children — seven boys and seven girls. It was a big, noisy, happy family, and they lived off the crops from their large garden.