Tonight, we’ll read part one of the story “Tears of Gold” found in “Folk-Tales of the Khasis” which was compiled by Mrs. Rafy and published in 1920. The original story in the book is titled “The Blessing of the Mendicant”. We first read this back in 2020.  The second half of this story will air next week.

The Khasi people are an indigenous ethnic tribe from India. A unique feature of the Khasi people is that they follow the matrilineal system of descent and inheritance.  

A mendicant is a person who relies on alms to survive, sometimes referred to as a beggar. This person is often a monk or otherwise part of a religious order.