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Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon; Volume I

Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon; Volume I

by H. Parker

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Translator
Parker, H. (Henry), 1849-
Title
Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Volume 1 (of 3)
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
Tales -- Sri Lanka
Category
Text
eBook-No.
56614
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56614
Release Date
February 21, 2018
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.CONTENTS
  3. 3.INTRODUCTION — Note.
  4. 4.STORIES TOLD BY THE CULTIVATING CASTE AND VAEDDĀS .
  5. 5.The Making of the Great Earth
  6. 6.The Sun, the Moon, and Great Paddy
  7. 7.The Story of Senasurā 1
  8. 8.The Glass Princess
  9. 9.The Frog Prince
  10. 10.The Millet Trader
  11. 11.The Turtle Dove
  12. 12.The Prince and the Princess
  13. 13.Tamarind Ṭikkā
  14. 14.Mātalangē Loku-Appu
  15. 15.The White Turtle
  16. 16.The Black Storks’ Girl
  17. 17.The Golden Kaekiri Fruit
  18. 18.The Four Deaf Persons
  19. 19.The Prince and the Yakā
  20. 20.How a Yakā and a Man fought
  21. 21.Concerning a Man and Two Yakās
  22. 22.The Three Questions 1 — The Four Difficult Questions.
  23. 23.The Faithless Princess
  24. 24.The Prince who did not go to School
  25. 25.Nagul-Munnā
  26. 26.The Kulē-bakā Flowers
  27. 27.Kurulu-gama Appu, the Sooth-sayer
  28. 28.How a Prince was chased by a Yaksanī, and what befel
  29. 29.The Wicked King
  30. 30.The Kitul Seeds
  31. 31.The Speaking Horse
  32. 32.The Female Quail
  33. 33.The Pied Robin
  34. 34.The Jackal and the Hare
  35. 35.The Leopard and the Mouse-deer
  36. 36.The Crocodile’s Wedding
  37. 37.The Gamarāla’s Cakes
  38. 38.The Kinnarā and the Parrots
  39. 39.How a Jackal settled a Lawsuit.
  40. 40.The Jackal and the Turtle
  41. 41.The Lion and the Turtle
  42. 42.STORIES TOLD OF OR BY THE LOWER CASTES
  43. 43.The Monkey and the Weaver-bird
  44. 44.The Jackal Dēvatāwā
  45. 45.A Kaḍambāwa Man’s Journey to Puttalam
  46. 46.The Kaḍambāwa Men and the Hares
  47. 47.The Kaḍambāwa Men and the Mouse-deer
  48. 48.The Kaḍambāwa Men and the Bush
  49. 49.How the Kaḍambāwa Men counted Themselves
  50. 50.The Kaḍambāwa Men and the Dream
  51. 51.The Four Tom-tom Beaters
  52. 52.The Golden Tree
  53. 53.The Seven Princesses
  54. 54.Mr. Janel Siññā
  55. 55.The Nikini Story 1
  56. 56.The Aet-kanda Lēniyā 1
  57. 57.The Wimalī Story
  58. 58.The Pots of Oil
  59. 59.The Mouse Maiden 1
  60. 60.Sīgiris Siññō, the Giant
  61. 61.The Proud Jackal
  62. 62.The Seven Robbers
  63. 63.The Stupid Boy
  64. 64.The Gamarāla and the Washerman — THE DEVIL AND THE HUSBANDMAN — The Gamarāla and the Washerman. (Variant.)
  65. 65.The Two Thieves
  66. 66.The Margōsa Tree
  67. 67.The Gamarāla’s Foolish Son
  68. 68.The Jackal’s Judgment
  69. 69.The Heron and the Crab — The Pond Heron. (Variant.) — The Pond Heron. (Variant.)
  70. 70.The Jackal and the Brāhmaṇa
  71. 71.The Cat who guarded the Precepts — How the Cat became an Upāsakā. 6 (Variant.) — How the Cat performed Bell Worship. ( Variant .)
  72. 72.The Lizard and the Leopard
  73. 73.The Lion and the Jackal — How the Jackal Cheated the Lion. (Variant.)
  74. 74.The Roll of Cotton
  75. 75.The Jackal and the Leopard
  76. 76.How the Boars killed the Rākshasa
  77. 77.The Grateful Jackal
  78. 78.Concerning a Monk and a Yakā
  79. 79.The Three Suitors
  80. 80.The Crocodile and the Jackal
  81. 81.INDEX
  82. 82.Colophon — Availability — Metadata — Revision History — External References — Corrections — Abbreviations

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