Identifier: folktalesofkhasi00rafy (find matches)
Title: Folk-tales of the Khasis
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Rafy, K. U
Subjects: Khasi (Indic people) Folklore -- India
Publisher: London : Macmillan and Co., Limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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we will feast upontin- maiden. It happened that a Little mouse was foraging nearthe den at i hat time and she overheard the tiger mutter-ing to himself. She was very sorry for the maiden, forshe knew that she was alone and friendless and entirelyat the mercy of the tiger : so the little mouse went andtold the maiden that the tigers were going to kill her andeat her on the following day. Ka Nam was in greatdistress and wept very bitterly. She begged of themouse to help her to escape, and the mouse, having aler heart. Lra\e ),,..■ what aid was in her power. In 1 he first place she told t lie maiden to go out of thed< n and t<» seek the cave of the magician, U Hynroh,the Giant Toad, to whom the realm was under tribute. II- was a j vi-h and exacting monster from whom tiled, and Ka Nam would have been terrifiedto approach him under ordinary conditions, but theperil which faced her gave her courage, and under the lane* t the mouse she went to the toads cave. WHAT MAKES THE ECLIPSE
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FOLK-TALES OF THE KIIASIS i ■. bei and beheld how fair she was. and learned bow she had been the captive of his old rival the lily consented to give hei his protection ; ■ clol bed her in a toadskin, warning her not to divest ■ If ,,t it in the presence of others on pain of death,be did in order to keep the maiden in his own custody and to make her his slave. When the mouse saw that her beautiful friend hadi ransformed into the likeness of a hideous toad sheirrowful, and regretted having sent her tose< k the protection l U Hynroh, for she knew that aslong as she remained in the jungle Ka Nam would behenceforth forced to live with the toads and to be theirBlave. So she led her away secrelly and brought her tothe magic tree which was in that jungle, and told the maiden to climb into the tree that she might be trans-ported to the sky. where she would be safe from harm forcwr. So the maid climbed into the magic tree andspoke the magic words taught her by the mouse : Growt

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