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| Keywords: Nohkalikai falls,shillong,meghalaya.jpeg According to legends the story of nohkalikai falls starts with KaLikai ka is a local prefix for women who lived in Rangjyrteh a village in Sohra popularly known as Cherrapunjee Today a ghost town of sorts the people of Rangjyrteh used to be the most significant manufacturers of iron Evidence of that is still seen strewn around as abandoned basins and tools KaLikai lost her husband almost immediately after giving birth to their first child and was forced to start work ferrying iron between villages to support her daughter She remarried later and this is where the tale takes an ugly turn Her new husband was overcome with jealousy at the attention KaLikai showered on her daughter In a fit of rage when the mother was away at work he killed the little girl and cooked her for dinner KaLikai exhausted after a long day unwittingly ate the child When she realised what she had done KaLikai couldn ™t cope with the horror and jumped off a cliff to her death The cliff and its falls came to be known as Nohkalikai literally translated as jump of KaLikai Nohkalikai Falls Taken with ASUS ZenFone 6 | ||||
