From Ao Naga Folklore
The Chongh tell this story. There was once a rich man who had a very beautiful daughter. Many men sought her in marriage, but she refused them all. Her heart was given to a youth whose face she had never seen. He used to come to her every night in her dormitory and go before dawn. In vain she looked for him among the bucks of the village in the day time. At last she told her parents what was happening.
Her father was determined to find out who his daughter’s lover was and kept watch at night outside the dormitory. When the youth left in the morning before dawn, he followed him. Instead of going to the “morung,” the youth went straight through the gate and down towards the village spring. There a strange transformation took place. His arms turned into branches, his hair into leaves, and his ear ornaments into berries, and, behold, instead of a man there was a big tree. The father determined to cut down this magic tree, and when it was fully light he told his daughter to remain indoors, and called all his relatives and friends to help him.
They cut and cut, but the tree would not fall. At last down it come was a crash. One chip flew far. It reached even to the girl’s house and struck her through her eye to her brain as she was peeping through the wall. So the two lovers died together, and the father came back, rejoicing, only to find that his daughter was no more.
Sources:
The Ao Nagas, Mills, Chapter 5
Kotharian Lightning 