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  • Aifink teh kitteh mite moob wen him heerz teh mowah!

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  • Now the son-in-law was a great hunter and that day he had killed and brought home a peacock; as he was leaving, the father said "My daughter, if your husband ever brings home a peacock I advise you to cook it with mowah oil cake; that makes it taste very nice."

    Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas

  • "O never mind him!" said the woman and insisted on her mother taking away a pot -- not of cheap mowah or mustard oil, -- but of ghee.

    Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas

  • I stooped down to try and see through the _rahar_ who was there but the crop was so thick that I could see nothing; so I climbed up the mowah tree to look.

    Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas

  • One day I went out to look at my _rahar_ crop which was nearly ripe and as I stood under a mowah tree I heard a voice whispering.

    Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas

  • One night he was coming back very late and, before he saw where he was, suddenly came upon a crowd of witches standing under a hollow mowah tree at the foot of the field that the dhobie has taken.

    Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas

  • So directly her father had gone, the woman set to work and cooked the peacock with mowah oil cake; but when her husband and children began to eat it they found it horribly bitter and she herself tasted it and found it uneatable; then she told them that her father had made fun of her and made her spoil all the meat.

    Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas

  • I have found them indiscriminately on the mango, mowah, neem, and other trees.

    The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

  • The bird does not preferentially select any one description of tree for its nest, though the greater number secured were taken from mowah trees (_Bassia latifolia_).

    The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

  • a plan; so when the day came for them to start for the bride's house she made a paste of ground mowah flowers and out of this fashioned an image of a child; and when the procession started off, with the

    Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas

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