"[3] The songs present stories of heroes such as Aromal Chekavar and Thacholi Othenan, and heroines like Unniyarcha.
Though two families belong to two different communities Thiyyar and Nair respectively, they share in common the martial traditional.
The chief among the Thiyyar chieftains of Puthooram was Aromal Chekavar, who had been killed by Chanthu in his first duel (Ankam).
Thacholi Chandu, Palattu Komappan, Putumada Kelu, Karumparambil Kannan are some of the other warriors who figure in the ballads.
[6][need quotation to verify][7][need quotation to verify] However, like any other oral cultural forms that are sung by communities even today, these songs show great flexibility and a repetitive pattern in their lexicon that is typical of the simplicity of folksongs in general.