Taklay Bumba is the story of a king with seven sons, for whom he wants to find wives. The tale tells the story of how the sons find themselves wives, after going through a number of adventures. Tsewang Norzom, aged eighty-three, is a farmer’s wife in the village of Kumik. She is the oldest person in her village and was suggested as someone who still remembers old tales. She learnt the tales from other people as a child. She can still recall the times when people were still coming and asking her to recite the tales.