Ose Iwori (Oshe Paure / Oshe Wori · Ose Iwori)

PATAKÍN: There was an omo of Oshun [a child of Oshun] who always went to the river and asked of her. Oshun always heard him and gave him what he asked of her, but he never troubled himself to give anything to Oshun; he always went to ask with his hands empty.

One day he came to the river and called Oshun, but she did not answer him, because what she gave her son he squandered on others, and she had already grown tired of giving to her son.

NOTE: A person only remembers the saints and the parents when they need them.

[Translator's note: this story is told again, at much greater length, as Patakín 11 ("The Gift of Oshun"); both tellings are kept as separate numbered entries.]

PATAKÍN: There was great hunger in the land, and everyone lamented the lack of money to buy food. They all gathered together a small sum of money, which was the only thing they had left, to make a purchase and divide it among everyone, but the market vendors (placeros) would not accept the money from them and told them [the source says "told him," singular] that it was false.

When they were most distressed, an old woman appeared to them, carrying a child, with the look of a sorceress (hechicera). On seeing the people weeping, she put the child down and, leaving him there, went to her house, took money out of a chest, returned to the plaza and gave it to the people.

They bought food and said, "Thank God we can eat now." On hearing them, the old woman said to them, "Thanks to me, who am [the source writes son, "are"] the daughter of Olofin and the one who gave you the money so that you could eat, you pack of ingrates."

Oshe Paure will not thank anyone for the favors done to him.

[Translator's note: at this point the Tratado repeats, a second time, the Ebomisi "for problems of the sight"; it is a pasted duplicate of the text given once in Part 3 (Obras y Trabajos) and is not repeated here.]