The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga notebook six

caption: dangerous spirits
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 19.9.1936
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 28.8.1936-26.10.1936
refnum: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: (131) There are many Gashi's, different ones in different places. There are some places, especially spring and marshy places,there are "great Gashi's" and the Ang people don't go there (otherwise they would fall ill), but the Ben people can go there safely.