The shepherds were very frightened. They ran home to tell their parents. “Oh! We are so lucky!” said their parents. “Don’t you know about the pumpkin moloi?” “It is a very special pumpkin,” said the shepherds’ parents. “You must leave it alone. Next summer the pumpkin will open again and the moloi will scatter pumpkin seeds all over our villages. We will have many, many pumpkins to eat,” said the shepherd’s parents.

Out came the pumpkin moloi. With her one leg she climbed out of the pumpkin. With her one eye she looked across all the villages. With her one arm she threw all those seeds across the valley.

And so it happened that the next summer, ‘M’e Maneo’s pumpkin burst open. It was full of many, many seeds.

The seeds grew into beautiful big pumpkins in all the gardens in the valley. That winter everyone in the villages had lots of pumpkins to eat. They went to ‘M’e Maneo. “Thank you, ‘M’e Maneo!” they called.