• Munmi Baro

The Bodo community is one of the important indigenous tribes of the North-East India. They belong to the Tibetan-Burmese family of Mongolian race. Bodo community has been living in this world since thousand and thousand years which even the history can not reach it and belief system is also coming along with them as their supreme power. Folk belief is a kind of social experience. It is believed and shared more or less by the folk society. As part of the folklore folk belief is also the result of social experiences which is transmitted from generation to generation orally. Folk belief and practices provide valuables of the folk-society. To speak, folk belief is in essence, nothing but knowledge of the ‘folk’; it encompasses collective wisdom and experiences of the folk-society. Bodos are the community who has been leading their livelihood at the forest areas since ancient period. They scared by seeing the natural calamities as a result they started to belief in existence of supreme power and worship the nature to get rid of dangers. Thus belief arises from religious philosophy; and this is also one of the causes of extant of folk belief. It may be observed that, in this way, folk beliefs occupy an important role among the Bodo folk-society. Folk belief reflects culture and validates social folk customs. It is the result of social experiences. Therefore folk belief is accepted as knowledge of the society and also advisor of the society.

Religion, Tradition, Belief, Culture of the Bodos

"An analytical study on bathou religious folk belief and traditional knowledge of the bodos", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 5, page no.a28-a43, May-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2105005.pdf

"An analytical study on bathou religious folk belief and traditional knowledge of the bodos", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 5, page no. ppa28-a43, May-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2105005.pdf