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Folk tales from Tibet

Folk tales from Tibet

by Sir William Frederick Travers O'Connor

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Editor
O'Connor, William Frederick Travers, Sir, 1870-1943
Title
Folk tales from Tibet : With illustrations by a Tibetan artist and some verses from Tibetan love-songs
Original Publication
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1906.
Credits
Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Language
English
LoC Class
GR: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Folklore
Subject
Tales -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 75000
Release Date
December 30, 2024
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.FOLK TALES FROM TIBET — WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY A TIBETAN ARTIST AND SOME VERSES FROM TIBETAN LOVE-SONGS
  2. 2.PREFACE.
  3. 3.CONTENTS.
  4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
  5. 5.HOW THE HARE GOT HIS SPLIT LIP.
  6. 6.THE STORY OF THE TIGER AND THE MAN.
  7. 7.THE STORY OF GOOD FAITH.
  8. 8.THE STORY OF THE TWO NEIGHBOURS.
  9. 9.THE STORY OF THE CAT AND THE MICE.
  10. 10.THE STORY OF THE FOOLISH YOUNG MUSSULMAN.
  11. 11.THE KYANG, THE FOX, THE WOLF AND THE HARE.
  12. 12.THE FROG AND THE CROW.
  13. 13.THE HARE AND THE LIONS.
  14. 14.THE SHEEP, THE LAMB, THE WOLF AND THE HARE.
  15. 15.THE STORY OF HOW THE HARE MADE A FOOL OF THE WOLF.
  16. 16.THE MOUSE’S THREE CHILDREN.
  17. 17.THE JACKALS AND THE TIGER.
  18. 18.THE STORY OF THE THREE THIEVES.
  19. 19.THE STORY OF THE BOY WITH THE DEFORMED HEAD.
  20. 20.THE PRINCE AND THE OGRE’S CASTLE.
  21. 21.THE STORY OF THE STONE LION.
  22. 22.THE STORY OF THE LAMA’S SERVANT.
  23. 23.THE COUNTRY OF THE MICE.
  24. 24.THE STORY OF THE TORTOISE AND THE MONKEY.
  25. 25.THE STORY OF ROOM BACHA AND BAKI.
  26. 26.HOW HE FOUND THE LOST TURQUOISE.
  27. 27.HOW HE DISLODGED THE SPIDER.
  28. 28.HOW HE DEFEATED THE ENEMY.
  29. 29.SOME VERSES FROM TIBETAN LOVE-SONGS.
  30. 30.LOVE SONG.
  31. 31.Colophon — Revision History — Corrections

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