FOLKTALES OF MANIPUR~MANIPURGEE PHUNGGA WARI

Once there lived a very poor couple with their seven sons. Driven by poverty the couple could not even feed their children a course of meal properly and so the helpless couple decided to abandon their children in the forest. The next day the father went to the forest with his seven sons to search for fruits and berries and thought of leaving his sons behind in the forest. The mother cooked some bread for each of them and they set off for the forest. On the way the youngest boy did not ate the bread , instead he left out pieces of bread as trials of their route. While the boys were busy searching for fruits, the father immediately escaped from their sights and ran away. The boys realized that they were lost and began to worry. However, the youngest boy showed his brothers the way back by following the trials and they reached home at night. The same thing happened the next day, the mother cooked bread for the sons, they went to the forest and as usual the youngest boy lea...

Once there lived a middle aged poor man in the outskirt of a village. The man had no one to called his own and so he was all alone in the house doing all the household chores and working to feed himself. There  was no one to look after him when he get sick, no shoulder to lean on when he felt tired and no one to share and cook delicious meal with him. He so longed for a company that he decided to go to the architect and get sculpted a lady made of wood. The sculpture was so beautiful that it looked like a real woman and the poor man was so happy to see it. He bought the sculpture home and begin to treat it as his wife. He started talking to the sculpture and pretended it to be alive. He would often asked “Dear, have you cooked the meal?” to himself and at the same time he would reply in a woman voice, “Yes, yes dear! Thus he lived happily in this way with the sculpture. One day he told the sculpture, “Dear I am going out to meet some of my friends, get the meal ready wh...

                                                                                                                                                                                   Once Upon a time there lived a man with her only daughter in their humble hut. The girl had lost her mother at a very young age, so she and her father lived a very lonely life. The girl misses her mother alot, her father said, no matter how hard I work our house never feels complete. In order to ease their problem and to make her daughter happy, the man remarried...