***Talet Makri, tradition bearer, sings a vernacular folksong on the topics of rivers and water*** 

Author: Margaret Lyngdoh Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore, University of Tartu 

Contact: lyngdoh@ut.ee

***The song was recorded as part of the project Tradition, creativity and society: minorities and alternative discourses IUT2-43 (Winter 2014). 

***The Video was recorded by Margaret Lyngdoh, with Justin Kharkongor as local research assistant in a jungle hut close to Pahamskhen village, Ri Bhoi, Meghalayaa, India using a Sony handycamHD camera. 

It has been made public as an effort to complement the research data being published on human-animal transformation traditions among Khasis where people interact with water as a supernatural powerful entity. The article is being published in Synthesis: An Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies. See, https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/synthesis/ 

The video features Talet Makri, tradition bearer and ritual performer singing about rivers.

The video is intended for educational purposes