Charana

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Tscharana is a bird in the mythology of the Eastern European Roma .

Tscharana is enormous, flies as fast as the wind and lives for 999 years. He has to be breast-fed to the same woman every night, who then reaches the same age as him and only dies with him.

In the fairy tale of the Snake King, a similar variant of the subject Beauty and the Beast , which we encounter in India, the beautiful Lolerme incubates an egg of the Tscharana bird in her vagina and raises the hatched bird on her bosom so that it becomes her enemy, the Witch kill.

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