Sinhalese Folklore Notes
by Arthur A. Perera
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About this eBook
- Author
- Perera, Arthur A.
- Title
- Sinhalese Folklore Notes, Ceylon
- 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 -- Sri Lanka
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 51621
- Release Date
- April 1, 2016
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.INTRODUCTORY NOTE.
- 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- 4.THE EARTH AND THE SKY.
- 5.THE VEGETABLE WORLD.
- 6.THE ANIMAL WORLD.
- 7.HUMAN BEINGS.
- 8.THINGS MADE BY MAN.
- 9.THE SOUL AND ANOTHER LIFE.
- 10.SUPERHUMAN BEINGS.
- 11.OMENS AND DIVINATION.
- 12.THE MAGIC ART.
- 13.DISEASE AND LEECHCRAFT.
- 14.SOCIAL AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS.
- 15.RITES OF INDIVIDUAL LIFE.
- 16.OCCUPATIONS AND INDUSTRIES.
- 17.FESTIVALS.
- 18.GAMES, SPORTS AND PASTIMES.
- 19.STORIES.
- 20.SONGS AND BALLADS .
- 21.PROVERBS, RIDDLES AND LOCAL SAYINGS.
- 22.GLOSSARY OF SINHALESE FOLK TERMS APPEARING IN THE SERVICE TENURE REGISTER (1872.) — A — B — C — D — E — G — H — I — J — K — L — M — N — O — P — R — S — T — U — W — Y
- 23.Colophon — Availability — Encoding — Revision History — External References — Corrections
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