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Folk-Lore and Customs of The Lap-Chas of Sikhim

by C. De Beauvoir Stocks
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9788121233873
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
  • Publisher Imprint: Gyan Publishing House
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  • Pages: 197
  • Original Price: INR 650.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 366 grams
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This book is an extract of the journal and proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (Vol XXI, No.4, 1925) from page 329 to 505. Very little authentic information can be gathered from the literature that is extant on Sikkim and its original inhabitants, especially with regard to the folk-lore, religion, customs, or indeed regarding any other race in the Himalayas. The present work is the result of research on these particular lines of Lap-cha life. It was undertaken with the intention of getting more exact information, and the materials which are here published were collected in Sikkim itself during the greater part of 1925. The present paper presents a correct idea of Lap-cha characteristics, while it is hoped it also gives an accurate account of their folklore. It concerns the study of the tribe to Lap-chas of Sikkim. The book starts with a brief note on the history and geography of Sikkim. This follows a note on the Lap-cha, also known as the Rong folk, concerning their ethical type and language. The next part deals with their mythology as reflected in their folktales; the tales analysed are their creation myths, zoological myths, and heroic tales. The book ends with a section on Lap-cha customs; this section describes their family life, birth, marriage, death and burial and miscellaneous observances. This book is a reprint of the 1925 edition.

Cheridah de Beauvoir Stocks was the second British woman to gain a Royal Aero Club aviator's licence, in 1911. She was born Cheridah Annie Ernst on 6th November 1887 in Evercreech, Somerset, England, the daughter of Henry Ernst, a magistrate, and his wife Annie (née Waring). She was living at the Hotel Metropole on Northumberland Avenue, Strand, London with her sister Bessie and her widowed mother. She married David de Beauvoir Stocks in London in 1909. She became only the second woman to gain a Royal Aero Club aviators certificate, passing her test using a Farman biplane at Hendon. Following a crash during an air show at Hendon in 1913 she was unconscious for six weeks and her recovery was closely followed by the newspapers of the day. Stocks never flew again.

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