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100			_aKire, Easterine _922896
245	1	0	_aSpirit nights / _cby Easterine Kire
260			_aNew Delhi: _bSimon & Schuster, _c2022.
300			_a182p.
520			_a‘Tiger has eaten the sun!’ screams Tola the seeress when darkness suddenly descends at midday, and the great spiritual struggle begins to restore the light. An ancient prophecy is fulfilled when darkness envelops a number of villages for days on end. The only thing they know is that a terrible taboo has been violated in the spirit world. Only by crossing the borders between the natural world and the spirit world, and acting with wisdom and courage can they get the light back, but who will dare to do that? Accounts of sudden darkness descending on the land exist in at least two tribal histories of the Naga people, the Rengma and the Chang. The story of Spirit Nights is inspired by a story of darkness narrated by the Chang Naga tribe. Names and incidents are borrowed from the original tale, but it follows the path of fiction to achieve its telling.
650	0	0	_aFiction _922897
650	0	0	_aFolklore _922898
650	0	0	_aFolklore in literature _922899
650	0	0	_aTribes _922900
650	0	0	_a Fiction Nagaland (India) _922901
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