Laos Folk-Lore of Farther India
by Katherine Neville Fleeson
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About this eBook
- Author
- Fleeson, Katherine Neville
- Credits
- Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- GR: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Folklore
- Subject
- Folklore -- Laos
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 35564
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35564
- Release Date
- March 12, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
- 2.Introduction
- 3.Contents
- 4.List of Illustrations.
- 5.I Tales of the Jungle — A Child of The Woods — The Enchanted Mountain — The Spirit-Guarded Cave — The Mountain Spirits and the Stone Mortars
- 6.II Fables From the Forest — Right and Might — Why the Lip of the Elephant Droops — How a Dead Tiger Killed the Princess — The Monkeys and the Crabs
- 7.III Nature’s Riddles and Their Answers — The Man in the Moon — The Origin of Lightning — Why the Parrot and the Minor Bird but Echo the Words of Man — The Fatherless Birds
- 8.IV Romance and Tragedy — The Lovers’ Leap — The Faithful Husband 9 — The Faithful Wife — An Unexpected Issue
- 9.V Temples and Priests — The Giants’ Mountain and the Temple — Cheating the Priest — The Disappointed Priest — The Greedy Priest — The Ambitious Priest
- 10.VI Moderation and Greed — The Wizard and the Beggar — A Covetous Neighbor — A Lazy Man’s Plot 15 — The Ungrateful Fisherman — The Legend of the Rice
- 11.VII Parables and Proverbs — “One Woman in Deceit and Craft is More Than a Match for Eight Men” — “The Wisest Man of a Small Village is Not Equal in Wisdom to a Boy of the City Streets” — “To Aid Beast is Merit; To Aid Man is but Vanity” 17
- 12.VIII The Gods Know and the Gods Reward — Love’s Secrets — Poison-Mouth — Strife and Peace — The Widow’s Punishment — Honesty Rewarded — The Justice of In Ta Pome
- 13.IX Wonders of Wisdom — The Words of Untold Value — A Wise Philosopher — The Boys Who Were Not Appreciated — The Magic Well
- 14.X Strange Fortunes of Strange People — The Fortunes of Ai Powlo — The Fortunes of a Lazy Beggar — The Misfortunes of Paw Yan — An Unfortunate Shot
- 15.XI Stories Gone Astray — The Blind Man — Heads I Win, Tails You Lose — The Great Boaster — A Clever Thief — Eyeless-Needle, Rotten-Egg, Rotten-Banana, Old-Fish and Broken-Pestle. — For Work Among Children — The Home and Children — TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
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