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MEHOUVIU & MORUSA : A TRAGIC STORY

Mehouviu and Morusa is a Naga folktale from the times of head-hunting retold by writer Easterine Kire (lralu). The story is about two people named Mehouviu and Morusa. Mehouviu was a young girl and Morusa was a young warrior. They lived in different villages. Mehouviu was the most beautiful girl in her village and many people wanted to marry her but she always refused them all because she wanted to marry Morusa. Morusa was a famous warrior from the village Kidima and everybody knew him. He was tall and strong and had taken many heads. One day Morusa’s uncle asked him to get married to Mehouviu and he agreed. Mehouviu was also happy when her relatives asked her to marry Morusa. The marriage was fixed. Few weeks before the marriage, Mehouviu started seeing a strange dream again and again. She would see in the dreams that she was sitting in Morusa’s house and there was a heaped plate of rice and meat in front of her. Few days before the wedding, Morusa decided to impress Mehouviu by doing something great. So he got out of his house in search of an enemy who he could kill. But he could not find anyone. Finally, he reached a village where there weren’t many people as everyone was working in the fields. He saw that in the porch of one house a woman was weaving. He quickly went near her and killed her with a spear through her heart. After that, he took her head and went back home happily. Soon, the news reached Morusa’s house that a warrior had killed Mehouviu. Morusa realized that the woman he had killed was actually Mehouviu whom he was going to get married. This Naga folktale is told so that head-hunting is discouraged.