Tag: zeme folktales

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 ...

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

There was once a man and he married, and though they lived happily for a while one day they quarrelled. ...

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 ...