Tour Guide, Shillong, India
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Hi, My name is Zack (Mebaaibor Dohling). This is the third article I wrote about Nohkalikai falls. The story was told to me by my grandmother who heard from her grandparents and so on, well! Let's not waste more time and go to the story of this waterfall!
Long long ago, there was a woman named Likai. She lived with her husband and her daughter. She used to stay home, take care of the family food, clothes and all the household works while her husband went out to work to provide food and money for the family. One day he got sick and could not go to work. Likai was in pain and in need of money to find a shaman (Nongkhan nongshad) to know what brought this ill fate in her family. Sadly, the husband died after one week. She has no other option but to seek a job by herself in a small factory while carrying the baby with her. One day she met another man who proposed to marry her and she heartily accepted the offer. They lived happily for a few years, but her husband did not like her daughter.
As the baby started growing into a child, its stepfather's hatred grew more and more. One day, when Likai goes to work, he hit the stepdaughter on the head and cut her into pieces. Then he cooks her meat and tries to run away. But he meets her in the way, and she asks him about the child. He tells her that the child is playing outside in the wood and he has some urgent work. But he says that he has made some food for her and will return later. So she goes back home and calls her daughter but there's no answer. She had worked all day, and she was hungry, so she thought she'd eat first and then find her daughter. But she finds a child fingers in the food. Now she understood everything. She took the Waitlyngun (traditional machete) and ran like crazy with unstoppable tears flowing from her eyes until she reached the top of this waterfall. She jumped from the cliff and died. Since that day, the people have named the waterfall, Nohkalikai in traditional language.