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Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon; Volume III

Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon; Volume III

by H. Parker

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Author
Parker, H. (Henry), 1849-
Title
Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Volume 3 (of 3)
Credits
Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenbergberg (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.
58889
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58889
Release Date
February 14, 2019
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.CONTENTS
  3. 3.STORIES OF THE CULTIVATING CASTE
  4. 4.Concerning the Friendship of the Hare and the Parrot
  5. 5.The Deer and its Friends — The Deer, the Jackal, and the Crow. (Variant a .) — The Rat and the Turtle that kept the Precepts. (Variant b .)
  6. 6.The Foolish Bird 1
  7. 7.The Golden Oriole
  8. 8.The Story of the Vīra Tree Fish-Owls 1
  9. 9.The Lion and the Bull’s Trust in Him
  10. 10.The Lizard and the Iguana
  11. 11.The Cobra and the Polan̆gā — The Widow and the Mungus
  12. 12.The Crab and the Frog
  13. 13.A Louse and a Bug
  14. 14.STORIES OF THE LOWER CASTES
  15. 15.The Three Yakās
  16. 16.The Time of Scholars
  17. 17.The Thief called Haranṭikā — The Dexterous Thief and his Son. (Variant.)
  18. 18.The Story of the Four-Fold Trap 1
  19. 19.The Foolish Prince
  20. 20.The Jackal and the Gamarāla
  21. 21.The Story of Batmasurā 1
  22. 22.The Story of Ayiwandā
  23. 23.The Gamarāla’s Son-in-law
  24. 24.The Story of the Gamarāla’s Son
  25. 25.The Manner in which the Gamarāla buried his Sons
  26. 26.The Story of the Wooden Peacock
  27. 27.The Wicked Step-mother
  28. 28.The Woman who ate by stealth
  29. 29.The Story of the Bitch
  30. 30.The Elephant Guard
  31. 31.The Elephant-Fool
  32. 32.How a Girl took Gruel
  33. 33.The Boy who went to learn the Sciences
  34. 34.The Prince and the Ascetics
  35. 35.The Turtle Prince 1
  36. 36.The Gem-set Ring
  37. 37.The Story of the Brāhmaṇa
  38. 38.The Story of a Siwurāla 1
  39. 39.How the Poor Man became Wealthy
  40. 40.The Story of Mādampē-rāla
  41. 41.Æwariyakkā
  42. 42.The Horikaḍayā Story
  43. 43.The Story of Bahu-Bhūtayā
  44. 44.The Story of Goḷu-Bayiyā 1
  45. 45.The Yakā of the Akaraganē Jungle
  46. 46.The Four Rākshasas
  47. 47.The Story of the Rākshasa
  48. 48.The Thief and the Rākshasas
  49. 49.King Gaja-Bāhu and the Crow
  50. 50.The Assistance which the Snake gave
  51. 51.The Leveret, or the Story of the Seven Women
  52. 52.The Greedy Palm-cat 1
  53. 53.STORIES OF THE WESTERN PROVINCE AND SOUTHERN INDIA
  54. 54.The Wax Horse 1
  55. 55.The Three-cornered Hatter 1
  56. 56.The Gamarāla who went to the God-World — The Tusk Elephant of the Divine World (Variant).
  57. 57.The Gamarāla who ate Black Fowls’ Flesh and Hīn-aeṭi Rice
  58. 58.How the Gamarāla drove away the Lion
  59. 59.The Son who was Blind at Night
  60. 60.The Son and the Mother 1
  61. 61.Concerning the Heṭṭi Man’s Son
  62. 62.The Fortunate Boy 1
  63. 63.How the Daughter-in-law got the Masuran
  64. 64.The Monkey and the Beggar, or the Monkey Appusiññō and the Beggar Babāsiññō
  65. 65.How the Beggar and the King gambled
  66. 66.The Story of the King
  67. 67.The King who learnt the Speech of Animals
  68. 68.The Mad King — The Kahawana Sowing (Variant)
  69. 69.Concerning the Prince with his Life in his Sword
  70. 70.The Royal Prince and the Heṭṭirāla 1
  71. 71.Prince Sokkā 1
  72. 72.The Affectionate Prince
  73. 73.The Prince who received the Turtle Shell
  74. 74.Concerning a Prince and a Kinnara Woman
  75. 75.The Way in which the Prince traded
  76. 76.A Princess and a Prince
  77. 77.Concerning a Royal Princess and Two Thieves
  78. 78.How the Nāgayā became the Princess
  79. 79.The Story of the Cobra’s Bite
  80. 80.How they killed the Great-bellied Tambi 1
  81. 81.How Mārayā was put in the Bottle
  82. 82.The Woman Pre-eminent in Cunning 1
  83. 83.Mātalānā
  84. 84.The Five Lies quite like Truth 1
  85. 85.The Three Truths
  86. 86.The False Tale
  87. 87.The Story of Koṭā — The Flower-Garden Story (Variant)
  88. 88.The Story of Sokkā
  89. 89.The Giant and his Two Friends
  90. 90.How they formerly Ate and Drank
  91. 91.The Gourd Fruit Devil-Dance
  92. 92.The Ascetic and the Jackal
  93. 93.SOUTH INDIAN STORIES
  94. 94.Concerning the Blind-Eyed Man
  95. 95.The Destiny Prince
  96. 96.The Teacher and his Pupil — The Teacher and the Bull (Variant a ) — The Brāhmaṇa and the Scholar (Variant b )
  97. 97.SINHALESE TEXTS OF STORIES
  98. 98.Rāja-kumārayakut Kumārikāwak gæna
  99. 99.Napuru Gǣnu Haddenāge Katantaraya
  100. 100.Rāksayāgeyi Kumārikāwageyi Katantaraya
  101. 101.Ibi Kumārayā
  102. 102.Goḷu Bayiyæ Kathāwa
  103. 103.Iṭi Aśwayā
  104. 104.APPENDIX — ADDITIONAL NOTES, AND CORRECTIONS, VOLUME I. — VOLUME II. — VOLUME III.
  105. 105.Omitted Incidents.
  106. 106.INDEX
  107. 107.Colophon — Availability — Metadata — Revision History — External References — Corrections

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