The horse started stomping on the casket. As the lid splintered, everybody caught the sound of something wailing….
He had intelligent eyes and a beautiful soul that anyone could see. In the evenings, when Salim sat on the front porch of his home, Kala would trot gently to the house. There he would lay down beside Salim and spend time with him.
They started doing this in the mornings and evenings. Unfortunately, Salim had a heart attack while he was in his garden. Although his family acted quickly enough, there was nothing they could do in time to save Salim in their small town.
So, as Salim lay in his bed unresponsive, the family realized that he had passed on. According to their region, they began burial rites and carefully washed Salim. They wrapped him in befitting burial cloth and put him in a wooden coffin to be taken to the burial site on his farm.
Everyone was shocked when they heard neighing from afar as they made their way to the burial site. The farmhands were chasing after none other than Kala. They had tried to lock him in his stables, but the large horse was so powerful that he kicked down the doors.
The steed was fast and unrelenting as he chased after the crowd. Salim was a well-loved man, so many crying people were present at the burial site. At the sight of the large, powerful horse charging toward them, they all scattered and moved away from where the coffin lay by the grave.
When Kala got to the coffin, he started aggressively stepping on it. Although they knew the horse wasn’t trying to be sinister and it was sad about Salim’s passing, they also knew it was hard to stop it. Just when they could use a catch rope around Kala, the horse kicked off the coffin’s lid.
It stopped stepping on it and it started sniffing it instead. Everyone was stunned by what was going on, and after a few seconds of silence, they heard crying from inside the coffin. From inside the coffin, Salim exclaimed and shot up from where he lay…