The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

miscellaneous papers, notebooks and letters on Nagas by Ursula Graham Bower, 1937-1947

caption:

earthquakes

medium:

notes

keywords:

herapeo

ethnicgroup:

Zemi

production:

person:	Graham Bower/ Ursula
date:	1937-1946

acquirer:

person:

private collection

text:

Earthquakes are caused by a herapeo trying to turn the earth over with a crowbar. The scavenger beetle goes and tells him there are no men left, so he starts to turn the earth over, the top down and the underside up; so everyone shouts out: "there are people here! There are people here!" so that he will stop. An earthquake is followed by a day's abstention from field-work.

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