She would go to the seashore and catch young women and men to satisfy her appetite. There was a woman called Juro, who lived in the forest. Although I found little similarity between the two, I didn’t contradict him. I was amazed at the way he compared Juro with the Hindu goddess, Kali, repeatedly. Nao thought what he did was right and beneficial for the society. Juro’s son loved his mother, but could not bear her atrocious habits of headhunting and, thus, he became instrumental in her killing. Juro’s story raised mixed feelings of remorse and pity. When children pass away, they are not buried initially they are left untouched for a few days, then they are cremated.When a person dies because of choking on a fishbone, their body is taken to a particular place near Mayabandar in the northern part of the Andaman Islands and left for a month on a tree for vultures to eat.When a person dies while hunting/killing, then s/he is put on a platform made on a tree (“machaan” in Hindi) and burnt.When a person dies of a natural death or in illness, s/he is buried in the earth (“boa-phong” meaning “hole in the earth”).From the story, I learned that there were four kinds of funerals in their society. This ensures the complete annihilation of the person concerned. To avoid this, it is enjoined that the dead must be cremated and not buried. This story also reveals the tale of Juro, the headhunter that people, who die unexpectedly, are born again, or turn into ghosts to trouble the community. He was not sure whether Juro wore the necklace of human skulls as Goddess Kali did. He did not believe me, but I did not want to land up in an argument, as I wanted to focus on the elicitation of the story of Juro. I did not like the comparison as I told him that Kali never ate human flesh. While narrating the story, he tried to establish the similarity between Juro and the Hindu goddess, Kali, for my understanding, when I asked how a woman could eat human flesh. This is one of the stories, where cannibalism was very evident. The story of Juro was a bonanza for me, as I had never expected to hear anything after the story of Phertajido. I promised to present him one and I kept my promise. He wanted in return a gift of a mobile phone. He instructed me, to my amusement, to switch on the recorder. I shelved my linguistic work and sat down with my notebook. On the Christmas afternoon of 2006, Nao visited me again, accompanied by his son and, to my surprise, volunteered to narrate a new story of Juro, the headhunter. Centre asks employees to buy cheap flight tickets, book them 21 days before travel.Food sequencing: Can eating a salad before carbs help your glucose levels?.In charts: Four scenarios show how the monkeypox epidemic is likely to play out.What is the Anti-Defection Law and how will it shape the Maharashtra crisis?.‘But what about the Assam floods?’: Cartoonists react to Maharashtra’s political crisis.Ranji Trophy: Sarfaraz after ton in final – ‘Had my father not been there, I’d have been finished’.Britain’s new work visa for elite graduates is unfair to students from developing nations.Shiv Sena seeks disqualification of Eknath Shinde, 11 other rebel MLAs from Maharashtra Assembly.How incessant rain and the Barak river in spate overwhelmed Assam’s Silchar town.How India’s blind admiration for sages hurts our democracy.Interview: How can Eknath Shinde and his Shiv Sena rebels escape punishment under the defection law?. How India helped build Brazil’s enormous beef industry.
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