This chapter opens with a flashback to the events of the previous chapter, which took place in a small village in the middle of nowhere. The narrator recounts the story of how his mother gave her brother, a retarded child, to her cousin, who gave him to his mother as a gift. He explains that children are vulnerable to evil spirits, especially the retard, and that it is a sin for a child to be unable to produce a child. He tells the audience that he and his cousin are a "match made in heaven" and that he will return to the village to help his mother.