Yarare Bouré. The bad wife – After fifteen years, the heirless king Ba Moussa decides to marry a woman younger than his wife. After a year the two wives give birth to a child on the same day; the child of his second wife is born later but is in very good health, so the king appoints it as his successor; The first child, Mobido, is not in good health. While the village shaman goes in search of a cure for Modibo’s illness, the second wife attempts to kill the child, who is hiding in the forest. When the shaman reports these cruelties to the king, he sentences her to death.