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Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon; Volume II

Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon; Volume II

by H. Parker

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Translator
Parker, H. (Henry), 1849-
Title
Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Volume 2 (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.
57399
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57399
Release Date
June 25, 2018
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.CONTENTS
  3. 3.STORIES OF THE CULTIVATING CASTE
  4. 4.A Legend of Kandy 1
  5. 5.The Gamarāla’s Daughter
  6. 6.The Gamarāla’s Girl
  7. 7.How Gourds were put in Small-Mouthed Pots
  8. 8.The Royal Prince and the Carpenter’s Son
  9. 9.Concerning a Royal Prince and a Princess 1
  10. 10.The Princes who Learnt the Sciences — The Nobleman 2 and his Five Sons. (Variant a .) — The Seven Princes. (Variant b .) — The Attempt of Four Brāhmaṇa Princes to Marry. (Variant c .)
  11. 11.The Story of Kaḷundāwa
  12. 12.How the Poor Prince became King
  13. 13.How the Gardener became King
  14. 14.How the Foolish Man became King
  15. 15.The Foolish Man
  16. 16.The Story of Marirāla
  17. 17.The Invisible Silk Robe 1
  18. 18.The Foolish Youth
  19. 19.The Story of the Seven Thieves
  20. 20.The King who became a Thief
  21. 21.The Female Fowl Thief
  22. 22.Gampolayā and Raehigamayā
  23. 23.The Story of the Two Liars
  24. 24.The Three Heṭṭiyās
  25. 25.Concerning Two Friends
  26. 26.Concerning Four Friends
  27. 27.Concerning a Horse
  28. 28.The Story of the Pearl Necklace
  29. 29.The Widow Woman and Loku-Appuhāmi
  30. 30.The Decoction of Eight Nelli Fruits 1
  31. 31.The Prince and Princess and Two Dēvatāwās
  32. 32.Concerning the Prince and the Princess who was Sold
  33. 33.The Princess Heṭṭirāla
  34. 34.The Maehiyallē-gama Princess
  35. 35.The Wicked Princess
  36. 36.Holman Pissā
  37. 37.Concerning a Vaeddā and a Bride
  38. 38.A Story about a Vaeddā 1
  39. 39.The Story of the Four Giants 1
  40. 40.The Story about a Giant
  41. 41.Hiṭihāmi the Giant
  42. 42.The New Speech 1
  43. 43.The Master and Servant
  44. 44.How the Son-in-law Cut the Chena
  45. 45.A Girl and a Step-mother
  46. 46.The Wicked Elder Brother
  47. 47.Nahakoṭā’s Wedding Feast
  48. 48.How a Man Charmed a Thread
  49. 49.How the Rice and Curry became Raw
  50. 50.How a Woman ate Cooked Rice by Stealth
  51. 51.How a Woman Offered Cakes
  52. 52.The Manner in which a Woman prepared a Flour Figure
  53. 53.How a Woman became a Lapwing 1
  54. 54.The Story of the Seven Wicked Women 1
  55. 55.The Story of the Old Man 1
  56. 56.The Magic Lute Player 1
  57. 57.The Lad who Sang Songs
  58. 58.The Hunchback Tale
  59. 59.The Poor Man and the Jewels
  60. 60.The Learned Poor Man
  61. 61.A Poor Man and a Woman
  62. 62.The Story of the Rākshasa and the Princess 1
  63. 63.The Way the Rākshasī Died
  64. 64.How a Rākshasa Turned Men and Bulls into Stone
  65. 65.The Rākshasa-eating Prākshasa 1 — The Rākshasīs-eating Prākshasa. 8 (Variant b .) — The Rice-dust Porridge. (Variant c .) — The Evidence that the Appuhāmi ate Paddy Dust. (Variant d .)
  66. 66.The Story of the Cake Tree — The Lad and the Rākshasī. (Variant a .) — The Cake Tree. (Variant b .)
  67. 67.The Girl, the Monk, and the Leopard
  68. 68.The Washerman and the Leopard
  69. 69.The Frightened Yakā
  70. 70.The Story of the Seven Yakās
  71. 71.The Yakā and the Tom-tom Beater
  72. 72.How a Tom-tom Beater got a Marriage from a Gamarāla
  73. 73.The Gem Yaksanī
  74. 74.The Nā, Mī, and Blue-Lotus Flowers’ Princesses — The Story of the She-Goat. (Variant a .) — The Story of a Nobleman’s Son. 23 (Variant b .)
  75. 75.The Loss that occurred to the Nobleman’s Daughter
  76. 76.The Raṭēmahatmayā’s Presents
  77. 77.The Prince and the Minister
  78. 78.The Story of King Bamba
  79. 79.Concerning a Royal Princess and a Turtle
  80. 80.The Story of a King and a Prince
  81. 81.The Story of the Gourd
  82. 82.The Story of the Shell Snail
  83. 83.The Queen of the Rock House 1
  84. 84.The Story of the Elder Sister and Younger Brother
  85. 85.The Queen and the Beggar
  86. 86.The Frog in the Queen’s Nose
  87. 87.Concerning a Bear and the Queen
  88. 88.The Leopard and the Princess
  89. 89.The Story of the Foolish Leopard
  90. 90.The Story of the Ḍabukkā 1
  91. 91.The Leopard and the Calf
  92. 92.The Ash-Pumpkin Fruit Prince
  93. 93.The Kabaragoyā and the Widow
  94. 94.The Frog Jacket
  95. 95.The Four-faced King and the Turtle
  96. 96.The Story of the Cobra and the Prince
  97. 97.The Ant Story
  98. 98.The Gamarāla and the Cock
  99. 99.Concerning the Golden Peacock
  100. 100.The Story of the Brāhmaṇa’s Kitten
  101. 101.The Story of the Mango Bird
  102. 102.How the Parrot explained the Law-suit
  103. 103.The Parrot and the Crow
  104. 104.The Crow and the Darter
  105. 105.Concerning the Crows and the Owls
  106. 106.The Female Lark
  107. 107.INDEX
  108. 108.Colophon — Availability — Metadata — Revision History — External References — Corrections

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