“nang” means “Miss, Mrs., word used before or in place of name of women or right.”
“sip song” means “twelve girls”
“Nang Sip Song” means “twelve girls”
This tale goes like this
A couple had twelve daughters. The family was too poor to find enough food to eat. Many times the husband and wife did not have anything to eat because their children ate it up. They decided to leave their little daughters in the forest.
One day father and mother took all the twelve little girls into the deep forest a long way from home. They told their daughters to wait there. They said they had to go to the toilet. The couple ran away quickly from the children. The little girls lived on fruit and vegetables in the deep forest.
Many years later, heavy rain came and so there was a lot of rice to eat. The couple thought of their children. They went into the deep forest to look for the girls. When they met their daughters, their children did not know them. They did not understand the human language. The children were afraid of their father and mother.
Finally, the husband and wife had to leave all the twelve girls to live in the forest until they became apes.