In the olden days, there used to be cholera. They say there used to be a lady in black riding in a carriage pulled by four black horses by night, cracking her tarred whip. Arriving at a village, she would visit every farmer. She would come tap on a window and ask, " Are you sleeping?"
If anyone of those lying there replied "No," then all the inhabit-ants of the house survived, but if the people were sleeping and nobody replied, the next morning they would all be found dead.  Retreating from the window, Cholera would say, "If you’re asleep, go on sleeping."
In order to protect themselves from Cholera, the people would keep an allnight vigil-one person in each house. When Cholera asked her question, they would reply, "We’re not asleep." Others would keep a fire burning at the edge of the village and erect crosses to deter Cholera as she entered the village, but all in vain.
Once a soldier came to the Dauksiai village and suggested a solution. In one day, they should spin, warp, thread, and weave a piece of cloth-then carry it to the edge of the village and spread it there. Then Cholera would be unable to enter the village. As this kind of work cannot be done by one person, all the men and women of the DaukSiai village came together. After working two days in a row, they produced two such pieces of cloth. They carried them to both ends of the village and spread them there. Only in this way the Dauksiai village survived - Cholera couldn’t enter the village and all the people could sleep without fear.

(Recorded in 1903)