"A Ram-huai named Chongpuithanga used to live near the ford over the Sonai. He said he was the servant of the King of the Huai and was always on the look out for men along the banks of the river. He spoke through a girl called Ziki, who was often ill, and used to go into trances. He demanded a pig and professed to have caused the deaths of ten persons of the village." The following is another story which the teller fully believed. "About six years ago Hminga, of Lalbuta's village, was looking at a ngoi (fishing weir) and saw some Ram-huai. These wore the chawndawl (headdress worn by slayers of men), and round these were strings of babies' skulls. On his return home he got very ill, and all his family kept on asking him what was the matter, but when he was going to tell them the Ram-huai would seize him by the throat so that he could not tell them. If he managed to say a few words he got a pain in the head. He did not die, but recovered." Again, "A woman of Lalbuta's village went out of her house at night for purposes of nature. Her name was Mangami; she was enceinte. The Huai of the Tuitlin precipice caught her, and forced out the immature child and then carried her off down the rocks. The young men of the village went to search for her and found her naked in the jungle at the foot of the precipice, where the Ram-huai had left her. She knew nothing about it. She recovered." The following story gives rather a different view of the Huai:--"A man called Dailova, who may be alive now, did not know that it was time for him to perform his Sakhua sacrifice. He and his son went down to fetch 'dhan' from the jhum house, and slept there among the straw; in the night the boy, feeling cold, went into the jhum house and slept among the paddy, but Dailova covered himself up in the straw and kept warm. Towards morning two Huais came along, one of whom was called Lianthawnga, and the other, Ram-huai, called to him, 'Where are you going to, Lianthawnga?' and he replied 'I am going to Lungzawl.' Then Dailova, from under the straw, called out, 'Where are you going to, Lianthawnga?' Then the Ram-huai came into the straw and wrestled with Dailova. When they had finished wrestling it was daylight, so they ate their rice and came home, and Ram-huai followed them and wrestled with Dailova. Sometimes the Ram-huai appears as a tiger and sometimes as a man. Dailova kept on saying, 'I will wrestle again with him,' and at last he called out, 'I have conquered.' Then the Ram-huai told him that his Sakhua sacrifice was overdue and he performed it at once." In the last story the Ram-huai is represented in much the same aspect as Khuavang has been described to me by others, one of whom told me that once, returning from a drinking bout at the chief's house, he had found a man of huge stature sitting by his hearth, who after staring at him for a moment or two disappeared. Another, who also had been at a feast, while on his way home saw huge men