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Simla Village Tales Or, Folk Tales from the Himalayas

Simla Village Tales Or, Folk Tales from the Himalayas

by Alice Dracott

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Author
Dracott, Alice, 1865?-1939
Title
Simla Village Tales; Or, Folk Tales from the Himalayas
Credits
Produced by 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
Folklore -- India
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 58816
Release Date
February 3, 2019
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.PREFACE
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  5. 5.THE CAUSE OF A LAWSUIT BETWEEN THE OWL AND THE KITE
  6. 6.A MONKEY OBJECTS TO CRITICISM
  7. 7.THE DEAD MAN’S RING
  8. 8.THE ORIGIN OF DEATH
  9. 9.THE REAL MOTHER
  10. 10.THE PRINCESS SOORTHE
  11. 11.THE SNAKE’S BRIDE
  12. 12.THE POWER OF FATE
  13. 13.THE OLD WITCH WHO LIVED IN A FOREST
  14. 14.KULLOO, A FAITHFUL DOG
  15. 15.THE STORY OF GHOSE
  16. 16.THE VIZIER’S SON AND THE RAJAH’S SON
  17. 17.THE RAJAH’S SON AND THE VIZIER’S SON
  18. 18.BEY HUSLO
  19. 19.THE STORY OF PANCH MAR KHAN
  20. 20.THE RABBIT AND THE BARBER
  21. 21.RUPA AND BISUNTHA
  22. 22.SHEIK CHILLI
  23. 23.SHEIK CHILLI
  24. 24.THE MONKEY, THE TIGER, AND THE PRINCESS
  25. 25.THE JACKAL AND THE GUANA
  26. 26.THE STORY OF THE BLACK COW
  27. 27.THE BRAHMIN AND THE WILD GEESE
  28. 28.THE FOUR-GIFTED PRINCESS
  29. 29.THE MAN WHO WENT TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE
  30. 30.THREE WISE MEN AND THE KING’S DAUGHTER
  31. 31.BARBIL’S SON
  32. 32.THE TIGER AND THE RATS
  33. 33.THE ADVENTURES OF A BIRD
  34. 34.THE LEGEND OF NALDERA TEMPLE
  35. 35.THE BUNNIAH’S WIFE AND THE THIEF
  36. 36.WHO STOLE THE RUBY?
  37. 37.THE STORY OF VICKRAMADIT
  38. 38.THE WEAVER
  39. 39.THE DOG WHO WAS A RAJAH
  40. 40.THE FOURTH WIFE IS THE WISEST
  41. 41.THE STORY OF PIR SAB
  42. 42.THE ORIGIN OF A RIVER
  43. 43.THE GOLDEN SCORPIONS
  44. 44.THE STORY OF A PEARL
  45. 45.THE BUNNIAH’S GHOST
  46. 46.BICKERMANJI THE INQUISITIVE
  47. 47.THE BRAHMIN’S DAUGHTER
  48. 48.ABUL HUSSAIN
  49. 49.THE MAGICIAN AND THE MERCHANT
  50. 50.THE SNAKE AND THE FROG
  51. 51.THE BARBER AND THE THIEF
  52. 52.THE STORY OF PURAN
  53. 53.TABARISTAN
  54. 54.THE PAINTED JACKAL
  55. 55.THE ENCHANTED BIRD, MUSIC, AND STREAM
  56. 56.THE DOG TEMPLE
  57. 57.THE BEAUTIFUL MILKMAID
  58. 58.A REMEDY FOR SNAKE-BITE
  59. 59.A LEGEND OF SARDANA
  60. 60.THE STORY OF “BUNJARA TULLAO”
  61. 61.THE ANAR PARI, OR POMEGRANATE FAIRY
  62. 62.Colophon — Availability — Metadata — Revision History — External References — Corrections

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