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Oral tradition of story telling has been an ancient precursor to literature. The primitive societies propagated knowledge from one generation to other through these oral tales. This practice of sharing wisdom, became a cultural heritage. The Royal State of Tripura traces it's heritage to the ancient time of Mahabharata where it was referred as 'Land of Kirats'. This small state of Tripura contains a mass collection of folk literatures. These tales gradually became legends and myths and established certain cultural symbols for the community. This paper aims to study these mythical eco-symbols by using Saussure's Semiotic Model . It will also apply Carl Jung's concept of 'Collective Unconscious' to decipher the recurring symbols and how they become a cultural identity for the tribes. These tales are not just mere reflections of tribal life, but have now become a great part of their tradition which this paper aims to discuss.