Reading Notes: Week 6 Khasi Folktales Part B

Beautiful sentences. These sentences caught my attention by either describing things beautifully or having a certain style. A lot of them were long, but instead of rambling they were super descriptive and you could perfectly picture these scenes.
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A flowing river, Source

"The clear chattering stream is seen emerging from its wild mountain home, dashing over the high precipice into the shadows of a deep gorge, flinging upwards, as it falls, clouds of tremulous spray, which wreathe and coil around majestic rocks, creating countless small rainbows which dance and quiver in a maze of palms and ferns and blossoming shrubs."

“The place is so remote and so still, as if every sound had been awed into a hush, except the thunderous boom of the torrent with its distant echoes moaning and shrieking like a spirit in anguish, that the whole locality seems weird and uncanny, suggestive of terrible possibilities”

“She rose distractedly, and, running to the edge of the precipice, threw herself into the abyss.”

“In those days the moon was equal to the sun in brightness and splendour.”

“He used to tickle them to death with his deformed and claw-like hands if they tried to desist from their sickening task.”

“The animals were all very smartly arrayed, each one after his or her own taste and fashion, and each one carrying some weapon of warfare or a musical instrument, according to the part he intended to play in the festival”

“Every one was exceedingly merry — they joked and poked fun at one another, in great glee; some of the animals laughed so much on that feast day that they have never been able to laugh since”

“The pool near which she lived being very clear, the stars and other heavenly bodies often gazed into it to behold their own images. At times the reflection of countless shining, blinking stars would be visible in the placid waters till the pool looked like a little part of the sky”

“He himself, by his skill and great prowess, obtained the most delicate morsels for his own consumption, but as it involved trouble to bring booty home for his household, he preferred to leave what he did not want himself to rot on the roadside or to be eaten by any chance scavenger”

“Thus the tiger received strength, and man received the gift of skill”

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Bibliography

Folktales from the Khasi people, Source