Tag: Folktales

There was once a slave-girl named Reile in Hangrum, and one feast-day one of the dekachangs made a song on ...

There were once eight brothers whose parents had died, and having nothing to eat they went to the jhums and ...

The quail and the squirrel were going to make a boundary between their lands. The squirrel hit the quail, and ...

Once upon a time there was a boy called Amang, and his parents died when he & his sister were ...

The leopard-cat and the night-jar were friends. They went walking together. The leopard-cat said: "We are only walking together like ...

The tortoise said to the marten: "Friend, let us work in each other's fields. Today we will go to your ...

There was once a small boy and every day when his parents went to the fields he used to run ...

Once, they say, there was a man who went hunting with his eight dogs, and they got so much meat ...

Once there was a man named Nriemreng, and every day while he and his wife were in the fields his ...

The tortoise went to the marten's jhum. They worked away all morning, and after a while the tortoise asked: "What ...