The series of feasts performed by the Lushais to attain the honours of "Thangchhuah" is not customary among the Thados, though some informants say that in olden days some such custom prevailed, and the "Chong" feast, at which seven mithan and two of every other sort of domestic animal had to be killed, is not performed now only because none can afford the expense. It will be remembered that "Chong" is the name of the first feast in the Thangchhuah series. Among the Haukip I am told that a position equivalent to Thangchhuah is attained by thrice celebrating the Ai of one of the following--tiger, bear, elephant, or hornbill. Thado Folk Tales. Benglama is the equivalent of the Lushai Chhura, and there are many tales about him which are common to both clans and in fact seem to be known to almost all representatives of the Kuki-Lushai race. The following is a translation of a portion of a tale written down in Lushai for me, but told by a Thado. Benglama had visited a village and got himself much disliked, and everyone was trying to catch him:--"Once they made a ladder and cut the lower side partly through and made a great quagmire underneath. Benglama climbed up it, it broke, and he fell down into the mud. Then a tiger came up. 'My friend, if you help me out you may eat me,' said Benglama. Then the tiger pulled him out. Then the tiger--'I will eat you up,' he said. Benglama--'I will just go and wash myself clean,' he said. 'Presently I will eat you up,' he said again. Benglama--'I will go and ease myself,' he said, 'otherwise you will dislike my dung,' he said. Where he went to ease himself he cut a cane. The tiger--'Why do you do that?' he asked. Then Benglama--'It is going to blow and rain like anything, therefore I am going to tie myself to the stump of a tree,' he said. Then the tiger--'If that is so, tie me up first,' he said. He tied him up. Then he (Benglama) also put a mallet, that all who passed by might beat the tiger. Benglama went away. Then the wild-cat came along. The tiger--'My friend, you and I are just alike; we two are friends, we are brothers--undo me,' he said. He undid him. Then the wild-cat left him, going into a pangolin's hole. Then just as he was going in, the tiger caught him by the foot. 'What you have got hold of, that is not me, it is a tree root,' he said. The tiger let him go, but remained watching for him, but the wild-cat always slipped out at the other side, and was always eating fowls by Benglama's house. The tiger--'My friend, what is it you are eating?' he said. Then the wild-cat--'Oh, I am only just eating the bones of my hand,' he said. The tiger was always eating his paw, and it hurt very, very much indeed. Presently the wild-cat went to the tiger and said to him, 'If you were to take a torch and go near to Benglama's house you would be able to catch some fowls,' he said. So the tiger went up, but Benglama saw him, and heated some water. When it was very hot indeed, he poured it into a tui-um (bamboo