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'''Yenakha Paotapi''' or '''Yenakha Paodabi Saijin Polibi''' ({{lang-en|Eavesdropper}}) is an old demoness ([[hingchabi]]) in [[Meitei mythology]] and [[Meitei folklore|folklore]] of [[Antique Kangleipak]] ([[Ancient Manipur]]). Legend says she is an evil being. She stays around the eaves of roofs.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/dli.language.0065/page/n131/mode/2up|title=মণিপুরী ফুংগাৱারী|last=S Sanatombi|date=2014|website=archive.org|pages=131|language=mni}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fNM1jbGkfJAC&dq=Yenakha+Paodabi+Saijil+Poliba+evil+spirits+linger+eaves+interfere+everywhere+humans+dog+jackal+grave&pg=PA44|title=Fresh Fictions: Folk Tales, Plays, Novellas from the North East|date=2005|publisher=Katha|isbn=978-81-87649-44-1|language=en}}</ref> The stories say she interferes everywhere.<ref name=":0" /> Legend says that she could not live with human beings. Instead, she lives like a | '''Yenakha Paotapi''' or '''Yenakha Paodabi Saijin Polibi''' ({{lang-en|Eavesdropper}}) is an old demoness ([[hingchabi]]) in [[Meitei mythology]] and [[Meitei folklore|folklore]] of [[Antique Kangleipak]] ([[Ancient Manipur]]). Legend says she is an evil being. She stays around the eaves of roofs.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/dli.language.0065/page/n131/mode/2up|title=মণিপুরী ফুংগাৱারী|last=S Sanatombi|date=2014|website=archive.org|pages=131|language=mni}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fNM1jbGkfJAC&dq=Yenakha+Paodabi+Saijil+Poliba+evil+spirits+linger+eaves+interfere+everywhere+humans+dog+jackal+grave&pg=PA44|title=Fresh Fictions: Folk Tales, Plays, Novellas from the North East|date=2005|publisher=Katha|isbn=978-81-87649-44-1|language=en}}</ref> The stories say she interferes everywhere.<ref name=":0" /> Legend says that she could not live with human beings. Instead, she lives like a dog or a jackal, sitting on graves.<ref name=":0" /> | ||
In some stories, she is depicted as a minor goddess ([[lairembi]]) in the [[Meitei religion]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U2wMAQAAMAAJ&q=saijin+polibi|title=Modernisation, Challenge and Response: A Study of the Chakpa Community of Manipur|last=Basanta|first=Ningombam|date=2008|publisher=Akansha Publishing House|isbn=978-81-8370-152-5|language=en}}</ref> | In some stories, she is depicted as a minor goddess ([[lairembi]]) in the [[Meitei religion]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U2wMAQAAMAAJ&q=saijin+polibi|title=Modernisation, Challenge and Response: A Study of the Chakpa Community of Manipur|last=Basanta|first=Ningombam|date=2008|publisher=Akansha Publishing House|isbn=978-81-8370-152-5|language=en}}</ref> | ||