After learning magic, a boy sells himself to a magician as a horse. With the magician around, however, the boy is not able to run away. Later, the boy manages to escape as a fish, a bird and other animals. Each time, the magician finds out that the boy had gone and brings him back. Finally, the boy hides himself in a hermit’s cloak, while the hermit kills the magician with his prayer beads. To clean up the sin, the hermit asks the boy to get a fantastic bird from India. However, while distracting the boy with a story, the bird escapes every time. Finally, on the seventh try, when the bird is ready to escape, the hermit grabs and pulls out six feathers from the bird's tail, which later turn into the six-word-mantra.