Daughter of the Star

In this myth told by the Nilotic Alur in Africa, a heavenly princess whose kingdom in a model of order falls in love with and marries a mortal king. When the king's subject follow the princess's orders concerning the wedding feast, all goes smoothly. But when the princess returns to her sky kingdom to visit her parents, her husband's servants who accompany her disobey her instructions not to open a lidded jar. As a result, a swarm of locusts and other insects is released and attacks the servants. Unlike the similar story of Pandora, in this tale the pestilent insects are put back into the jar, and the servants thus learn to obey their rulers' instructions.