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    Katsingpeo's Wife – Zeme Folktale
            There was once a slave-girl named Reile in Hangrum, and one feast-day one of the dekachangs made a song on her name, as if she were a mithan for sacrifice.
        
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    26 May 2020
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    Haiguing - Zeme Folktale
            There was once in the village of Niem a man called Dimansareng, who had a son named Haiguing but no other kinsmen at all. The warriors of Nke constantly asked
        
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    11 May 2020
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    The Orphans - Zeme Folktale
            There were once eight brothers whose parents had died, and having nothing to eat they went to the jhums and searched for tubers which the villagers had thrown away. A
        
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    5 May 2020
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    The Egg's Revenge - Zeme Folktale
            The pheasant and the jungle-cat were friends. The cat called the pheasant to see his house.  The pheasant went, and the cat said: "Now you  must show me your house.
        
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    28 Apr 2020
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    The Elephant - Zeme Folktale
            A woman went to the fields, taking zao kasang. It was a cloudy day and she did not feel thirsty. Next day she said: "It will be like yesterday, there
        
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    25 Apr 2020
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    The Quail and the Squirrel - Zeme Folktale
            The quail and the squirrel were going to make a boundary between their lands. The squirrel hit the quail, and the quail wept. The barking deer asked why he wept.
        
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    20 Apr 2020
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    Arkhangsuong – Zeme Folktale
            Once  upon a time there was a rich couple who had only one child, a boy named  Akhangsuong. Every time they went to the fields the child ran after  them
        
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    18 Apr 2020
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    The Orphans and Amang – Zeme Folktale
            Once upon a time there was a boy called Amang, and his parents died when he & his sister were very young. Some people gave them a little, most people
        
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    17 Apr 2020
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    The Story of Karumeona - Zeme Folktale
            The leopard-cat and the night-jar were friends. They went walking together. The leopard-cat said: "We are only walking together like this; where is your house?" The night-jar showed him her
        
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    15 Apr 2020
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    How the Tiger was Fooled (another version) - Zeme Folktale
            The tortoise said to the marten: "Friend, let us work in each other's fields. Today we will go to your fields, tomorrow we will go to mine." "Very well," said
        
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    15 Apr 2020
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    Hangnegun – Zeme Folktale
            There was once a small boy and every day when his parents went to the fields he used to run weeping after them and clamour to be taken too. They
        
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    14 Apr 2020
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    The Wild Dog - Zeme Folktale
            Once, they say, there was a man who went hunting with his eight dogs, and they got so much meat that the house was full of it. He put it
        
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    11 Apr 2020
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    Kangiena - Zeme Folktale
            Once there was a man named Nriemreng, and every day while he and his wife were in the fields his little son used to play in the village. Now there
        
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    7 Apr 2020
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    How the Tiger was Fooled - Zeme Folktale
            The tortoise went to the marten's jhum. They worked away all morning, and after a while the tortoise asked: "What shall we eat for our midday meal?" "Be quiet," said
        
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    6 Apr 2020
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    The Monkey and the Barking Deer - Zeme Folktale
            The monkey and the barking-deer were friends. The monkey said: "Pretend to be lame." The deer pretended to be lame. A man saw the deer and cried: "Look, look, a
        
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    4 Apr 2020
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    The Story of the Barking Deer Doe - Zeme Folktale
            There was once a man and he married, and though they lived happily for a while one day they quarrelled. The wife said: "Very well, I shall become a barking
        
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    2 Apr 2020
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    The Otter - Zeme folktales
            A man  used to set basket-traps to catch fish, but every night an otter came  and ate the fish in the traps. The man was angry, and said: “Who is  eating all my fish? I will set a trap.
        
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    27 Mar 2020
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    Neomi's Tower and the Division into Tribes - Zeme Folktale
            Neomi’s  descendants determined to build a tower so as to return to Heaven,  whence their ancestor came. They built a wooden tower, and when it was  very high a man at the top called down for more wood.
        
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    26 Mar 2020
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