
Abstract: Storytelling is as old as culture. Each group of people has long established the narrative, they have conveyed most of the time orally many stories of their ancestors. The type of transmission can be different across cultures. Some may tell at a public gathering like a bazaar or somewhere else. The Mizo narrates especially in front of fireworks, in Zawlbuk, and on the bed before sleeping. Furthermore, traders or travelers pass everywhere they went; so that most tales are hardly tracing the time and place of origin. All the tales shared the vital signs of the culture after having taken much time to transmit themselves. However, this article will attempt to highlight the stories of Mizo folktales Mauruangi as a variant of Cindrella comparing with the stories of other cultures by examining the theme and the literary text. It will also reflect how stories can travel around the world and some of the stories that we share within cultures can come from.
Tui let thawnthu reng reng hi a tlangpuiin pathian emaw, pathiante emawin leia chengte hremna atana an thlentir a ni deuh zel a. Chu chuan chhiatna rapthlak tak a thlen deuh zel a….Hnam hrang hrang sakhaw hrang hrang hian hetiang tui let thawnthu hi an lo nei deuh vek a… kan hnam thawnthu leh thu inhlanchhawn thlenga thil inang tam tak a lo awm timaktu zinga mi a tling ve hial awm e… Sawi dan leh chhinchhiah dan inchen chiah lo hlawm mah se, khawvel hmun hrang hrang, kil tin kil tanga cheng ten tui let thawnthu an lo nei mheuh mai hian ngaihtuah zui tur thil tam tak a hnutchhiah tiin a sawi theih ang. (9-10)
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Cite the original source:
Khiangte, Vanlalṭana. “A Monogenetic Study of Mizo folktales: Mauruangi as the Variant of Cindrella.” Mizo Studies, X, no. 3, Sept. 2021, pp. 665–674.
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