'Noh Ka Likai' falls, is the most beautiful, enthralling, mesmerising place on the Khasi hills and at the same time it instils a sense of fear. At height 350 metres it is the tallest waterfall in India.
The story of Noh Ka Likai falls is tragic.
The story is of a woman, named Ka Likai, who loved her daughter dearly. Villagers say that she got widowed at an early age but life was not bad since she fell in love again and married the love of her life and was glad that her daughter now had a father.
But the tale doesn't end happily, for the husband was so possessive about Ka Likai that he could not bear his wife's love for the daughter. He was jealous of his daughter and hated her.
One day, Ka Likai was out working in fields and later when she came home in evening she found that her husband had prepared a delicious meal for her.
She was very glad and ate happily with him.
While eating, she noticed a small finger and she was immediately filled with fear. She searched everywhere but couldn't find her daughter. She understood what must have happened and asked her husband. He confessed his crime without remorse. She got so sad that she lost her mind and became mad. She was filled with guilt on eating her own daughter's meat.
She went and jumped off the cliff. Since then it got named 'Noh Ka Likai' meaning the leap of Ka Likai. The doleful moans of their echoes are said to be the echoes of Ka Likai's anguished cries.
To this day, when widows with children are contemplating second marriages, they are cautioned to be careful and to use judgement with the warning "Remember Ka Likai".
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