Folktales

Folktales of North East India

Sharing the folktales of North East India viz. Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, Sikkim and Tripura. Hope you enjoy.

We present to you eight folk tales from North East India.

The Cricket and the Crab (Adi tale)

(From A New Book of Tribal Fiction, Verrier Elwin, 1970, Govt. of Arunachal Pradesh)

This story is part of the  Khasi Folktales unit.
Story source: Folk-Tales of the Khasis by Mrs. K. U. Rafy (1920).
“Why the Goat lives with Mankind”

Kongliang Otsu: An Ao Naga folk tale from Naga Journal

Tejimola: An Assamese Folktale from Joi Barua

Jyamphi Moong by Ananya Susarla

Ngaiteii Translated by Rini Tochhong

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