Yube Inu took the game back to his people, but he was not himself anymore. He could only think about the woman in the lake, and back there he went the following day.

He tossed three jenipapo berries into the water, as the tapir did, and from the foam came the enchanted woman again. But she didn’t find her husband waiting, she found Yube Inu there.

First she turned into a jaguar, so he would be scared, but he stayed. Then she turned into the thorny murumuru palm tree, so he wouldn’t touch her, but he did. Last, she revealed herself as a boa, and embraced him.

“What is your name?”, he asked. She looked at him and replied “I’m Yube Shanu”.

The snake woman went back to the water and took him with her. They lived at the bottom of the lake and had three children. From their time together, Yube Inu learned the ways and customs of her people, including their knowledge of a sacred brew.

But his father-in-law was mad, for their brew was no longer a secret, and he decided to eat Yube Inu.