Tag: Folktales

The monkey and the barking-deer were friends. The monkey said: "Pretend to be lame." The deer pretended to be lame. ...

A long time ago, in the age of dreams and magical times, when the gods and humans resided side by ...

by wungnaongam Long ago, there lived a family. The family had two daughters. The elder daughter was named Dunai and ...

A man  used to set basket-traps to catch fish, but every night an otter came  and ate the fish in ...

Neomi’s  descendants determined to build a tower so as to return to Heaven,  whence their ancestor came. They built a ...

A  number of women once went down to the river to fish, and one of them  who was a little ...

Once  there was a Kachari Raja, and he married, and his wife bore him a  daughter. When she grew up ...

First  of all Bangklawong fell from heaven. There was no earth, only water,  and on top of it was a ...

Once  there was a boy whose parents had died, and he lived in the house of  some relatives, but the ...

Long ago, there lived three brothers. They  had a small firm and little cottage, in which they lived. The eldest ...