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Indian Folklife Regd. No. R.N. TNENG / 2001 / 5251ISSN 0972-64702. Water is not givento bloodrelatives - Affinal3. Snake gives waterin the name ofmarriage- Affinal4. Brothers took theirsister back home - Consanguineal5. The snake (husband)was killed- Victimised6. Children born areput into fire - Victimised7. One snake escaped - Life8. The snake was killed - VictimisedConsanguineal Affinal Life Victimised4 1, 2, 3 7 5, 6, 8Thus,Consanguineal : Affinal : : Life : VictimisedIt is seen that in this myth, a thirstyPathinaicken woman is not givenwater by her sisters-in-law. Later,a snake gives her water in the nameof marriage. The snake takes her toa distant place and they start livingas husband and wife. But when herbrothers came in search of her, sheleaves her husband and returns toher natal home with them. She evenstands alongside her brothers to killher husband. This myth itselfshows that the relationship betweenhusband and wife is negative andbetween brother and sister ispositive.When we go through this myth, thereis no place to wonder why a womanleaves her husband when herbrothers come to take her. This isbecause of the kinship system of thePathinaicken that makes this loreunique to that community.ReferencesFuchs, Stephen, 1973. The AboriginalTribes of India, New Delhi: Macmillan.Kakkoth, Seetha, 2001. Three Tribes ofNilambur Valley: A Study inInterrelationship Between Habitat,Economy, Society and Culture,(Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis) Kerala:University of Calicut.Kessler, E.S., 1974. Anthropology: TheHumanising Process. London: Allyn &Bacon, Inc.Levi-Strauss, Claude, 1973. StructuralAnthropology, (vol 11). England: PenguinBooks.Kirk, G.S., 1970. Myth: Its Meaning andFunctions in Ancient and Other Cultures,Cambridge: Cambridge UniversityPress.Nambuthiripad, Usha (ed), 1993. Originof the Lunar Eclipse: A Pathinaicken Mythin Tribal Folklore, Occasional Newsletterof the Project of the Tribal Folklore ofKerala, Thiruvananthapuram.Payyanad, Raghavan, 1986. Folklore. (InMalayalam) Thiruvanathapuaram: KeralaBhasha Institute.Vidhyarthi, L.P and B.K. Rai, 1976. TribalTransformations in India, New Delhi:Concept Publishing House.Velappan. K., 1994. AdivasikalumAdivasibhashakalum. (In Malayalam)Trivandrum: Kerala Bhasha Instittute.Notes1. A person’s very close relatives suchas father (F), mother (M), brother (B),sister (Z), son (S), daughter (D),husband (H) and wife (W).Review BooksKa Mer Ka Sdad: Conference, Confluence(The Role of Rivers and Waters in Khasi Culture and Vision)Edited by Desmond L. Kharmawphlang & Sujit SomBhopal: Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav SangrahalayaRs. 200Folktales of MizoramBy Laltluangliana KhiangteMizoram: LTL PublicationRs. 150Narratives of North East IndiaEdited byDesmond L. KharmawphlangShillong: PROFRA PublicationsRs. 150Narratives of Northeast India-IIEdited byDesmond L. KharmawphlangShillong: PROFRA PublicationsRs. 150Mizo Songs and Folk TalesEdited byLaltluangliana KhiangteNew Delhi: Sahitya AkademiRs. 130To review the above titles the potential reviewers can contact the editorPublished by M.D. Muthukumaraswamy for National Folklore Support Centre, No.7, Fifth Cross Street, Rajalakshmi Nagar,Velachery, Chennai - 600 042 (India), and printed by M.S. Raju Seshadrinathan at Nagaraj and Company Pvt. Ltd., # 22 (153-A),Kalki Krishnamurthy Salai, Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai 600 041, (For free private circulation only). Editor: M.D. Muthukumaraswamy24 INDIAN FOLKLIFE VOLUME 2 ISSUE 3 JANUARY - MARCH 2003