How Men Lost Their Tails

Sat, 01 Jan 2000 12:11:45 +0000

The hill people have many theories about the origin of mankind. Some say that God fashioned the first people from clay with his own hands; some say that they were hatched from enormous eggs. They emerged from a crack in the ground, from the womb of Mother Earth; they were born of a goddess; they were even born of animals.

But all agree that, however they came into being, they were very different from what they are today, as the following stories show. According to the Saoras of Orissa, for example, they originally had tails.

Verrier Elwin on Pitara Kids Network

How Men Lost Their Tails