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Overview
Nang Hsa Nae, also printed Nang Hsa Ne, is the youngest of Hsin Kyan’s seven daughters. The account associates the sisters with days of the week. Sa Kyah promises queenship to whichever daughter can kill their protected father, and a bird tells her how to use spider silk and white bamboo to overcome his charms.
After she presents the severed head, Sa Kyah breaks his promise because he fears her capacity to kill a husband. The head cannot safely touch land or sea, so he orders her to carry it for a year and then pass it to the next-older sister. Their annual exchange and washing of bloodied garments explain the new-year washing days in this version; this is a specific sacred narrative, not a claim to exhaust all regional new-year traditions.
Origins & earliest records
Shan traditions of the hill and water country, Burma/Myanmar
Records & interpretation
Full relevant tale and introduction directly read; historical spellings preserved.
Selected bibliography
Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.
- 01
Shan Folk Lore Stories from the Hill and Water Country
Introduction dated Bhamo, 1902; How the World Was Created, pp. 89–91
- 02
Shan Folk Lore Stories, in The Red Miriok / Shan Folk Lore Stories (combined edition)
Bibliographic witness only: unpaginated title and copyright pages independently inspected in original scan; publication line says January1903, copyright1901and1902. This does not establish the date of the separately transcribed Gutenberg witness or of first publication.
Family, evolution & connections
Hsin Kyan’s seven daughters
Griggs’s creation account, pp. 89–91.
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- Nang Ta Nang Nooie (eldest)
- Five intervening daughters (collective terminal)
Explicit fatherhood and eldest/youngest designations. The grouped terminal represents five daughters, not one child. Mother unspecified. Sa Kyah refuses the promised marriage; bird address does not establish kinship.
Nang Ta Nang Nooie
Both belong to the explicitly stated seven-daughter household. No mother is identified in this passage.
Primary records and illustrations
William C. Griggs, Shan Folk Lore Stories from the Hill and Water Country
Shan traditions; introduction dated Bhamo1902. How the World Was Created, pp. 89–91
Complete relevant narrative and introduction read from Gutenberg32375. Early English spelling retained; no invented individual narrator, modern standardized transcription or physical anatomy. Publication date distinguished from dated introduction. Original combined-volume title/copyright pages independently viewed: archive item redmiriokshanfol0000anna, cached griggs-redmiriok-6.jpg and-7.jpg in public/assets/credited/_audit; publishedJanuary1903. Separate bibliographic witness, not a claim that full original scan text was collated.
References
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- Historical folktale collectionGriggs, Shan Folk Lore Stories, How the World Was Created, pp. 89–91Research access: 2026-10-05
- Primary bibliographic scanCombined volume title and copyright pages, published January1903Research access: 2026-10-05
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