Title: The Story of Thochiu

Language: Sumi

Description:

The story of Sopfunuo’
The folk tale comes from the Northern Angami community of Rusoma village. Through this assignment, I would like to delve deeper into the historical folktale. Back then, a man from Pudunamei travelled to a village, he saw a girl weaving and decided to ask her hand in marriage for his son and the girl also agreed to the proposal. After her marriage, she moved to her husband’s village, one night both of them got into a heated argument and her husband chased her out along with her child, so she moved out from the house with the child and a lamp during the midnight of their journey her lamp fuel was over and the lamp was turned off and accidentally she got spared to death and leaving her child alone, due to hunger her child eventually died near her body. After a few weeks, the girl’s father came to visit her and he got the news that her daughter had been away the whole time and in search of her daughter he went through the jungles of the village and there he saw a tombstone and realized that it was her daughter and when he tried to carry the stone he was not able to pull the stone, he saw near the stone there was a smaller size stone of her child which made him realize it was the stone of his grandchild, so he carried both the stone to their village. And this tombstone of both the mother and the child is still preserved in this generation to show the inseparable love of a mother and her child.

Format & Duration: Audio: 1 minute, 50 seconds
Date of Recording:8/10/2024
Date of Upload: 4 October 2024
Performer: Yekhuvi Achumi
Creator: Initoli
Publisher: Tetso College, Dimapur
Note: This folktale describes the superstitions and beliefs of Naga(sema) describing their knowledge of the Sema folktale which is still guiding the community in their agricultural practices preserving his legacy.

Cite this work

Initoli  . 2024  . The Story of Thochiu (narrated by Yekhuvi Achumi)  . NEIIPA,Tetso College  . (https://neiipa.in/audio/the-story-of-thochiu/)  . Accessed: (21-Nov-2024)