You call a kabaragoyâ a talagoya when you want to eat it.
It is like wearing a crupper to cure dysentery.
Like the man who got the roasted jak seeds out of the fire by the help of a cat.
Like the man who would not wash his body to spite the river.
Like the man who flogged the elk skin at home to avenge himself on the deer that trespassed in his field.
Like the villagers who tied up the mortars in the village in the belief that the elephant tracks in the fields were caused by the mortars wandering about at night.
Though a dog barks at a hill will it grow less.
It is like licking your finger on seeing a beehive on a tree.
It is not possible to make a charcoal white by washing it in milk.
The cobra will bite you whether you call it cobra or Mr. Cobra.