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are you going to, Lianthawnga ?' and he replied * I am going to
LungzawU Then Dailova, from under the straw, called out,
' Where are you going to, Lianthawnga ?' Then the Ram-huai
came into the straw and wrestled with Dailova. When they
had finished wrestling it was daylight, so they ate their rice
and came home, and Ram-huai followed them and wrestled with
Dailova. Sometimes the Ram-huai appears as a tiger and
sometimes as a man. Dailova kept on saying, ' I will wrestle
again with him/ and at last he called out,c I have conquered.'
Then the Ram-huai told him that his Sakhua sacrifice was
overdue and he performed it at once." In the last story the
Ram-huai is represented in much the same aspect as Khuavang
has been described to me by others, one of whom told me that
once, returning from a drinking bout at the chiefs house, he
had found a man of huge stature sitting by his hearth, who
after staring at him for a moment or two disappeared. Another,
who also had been at a feast, while on his way home saw huge
men with enormous heads passing through the jungle. In both
these cases the narrators assured me that they were perfectly
sober; in fact, one of them alleged as a reason for being sure that
the figure which he saw was Khuavang was that, in spite of
having drunk a great deal, he did not feel intoxicated. In each
case the vision was followed by a severe illness.

There is a lake called " Dil," between the southern border of
the Lushai Hills and the Arracan hill tracts, which was credited
with being the abode of many savage Tui-huaL No hill man
would go within sight of the water, and when I first went there
I had great difficulty in getting men to accompany me. The
story is that some foreigner visited the place once and climbed
into a tree overhanging the water, whence he dropped his knife
into the lake and sent one of his men down to fetch it. The
diver returned without the knife, but with tales of wonderful
beings beneath the water. The foreigner fired his gun into the
lake, whereupon numbers of Tui-huai emerged and chased the
whole party of intruders, catching and carrying off all except
their leader, who made good his escape.

Every form of sickness is attributed to the influence of some
Huai or other, and all tales about Huais either begin or end,
" There was much sickness in our village." At the time of an

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