Vikram and the Vampire; or, Tales of Hindu Devilry

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Sir Richard Francis Burton

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

INTRODUCTION.

THE VAMPIRE'S FIRST STORY. IN WHICH A MAN DECEIVES A WOMAN.

THE VAMPIRE'S SECOND STORY. OF THE RELATIVE VILLANY OF MEN AND WOMEN.

THE VAMPIRE'S THIRD STORY. OF A HIGH-MINDED FAMILY.

THE VAMPIRE'S FOURTH STORY. OF A WOMAN WHO TOLD THE TRUTH.

THE VAMPIRE'S FIFTH STORY. OF THE THIEF WHO LAUGHED AND WEPT.

THE VAMPIRE'S SIXTH STORY. IN WHICH THREE MEN DISPUTE ABOUT A WOMAN.

THE VAMPIRE'S SEVENTH STORY. SHOWING THE EXCEEDING FOLLY OF MANY WISE FOOLS.

THE VAMPIRE'S EIGHTH STORY. OF THE USE AND MISUSE OF MAGIC PILLS.

THE VAMPIRE'S NINTH STORY. SHOWING THAT A MAN'S WIFE BELONGS NOT TO HIS BODY BUT TO HIS HEAD.

THE VAMPIRE'S TENTH STORY. [168] OF THE MARVELLOUS DELICACY OF THREE QUEENS.

THE VAMPIRE'S ELEVENTH STORY. WHICH PUZZLES RAJA VIKRAM.

CONCLUSION.

FOOTNOTES

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TALES OF HINDU DEVILRY.

LONDON: PRINTED BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
AND PARLIAMENT STREET

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 During the three hours of return hardly a word passed between the pair.

Frontispiece.

VIKRAM AND THE VAMPIRE
OR
TALES OF HINDU DEVILRY.

ADAPTED BY

RICHARD F. BURTON, F.R.G.S. &c.

‘Les fables, loin de grandir les hommes, la Nature et Dieu, rapetissent tout.’

Lamartine (Milton).

‘One who had eyes saw it; the blind will not understand it.

A poet, who is a boy, he has perceived it; he who understands it will be his sire’s sire.’—Rig-Veda (I. 164, 16).

WITH THIRTY-THREE ILLUSTRATIONS
BY
ERNEST GRISET.

LONDON:
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
1870.

TO MY UNCLE,
ROBERT BAGSHAW, OF DOVERCOURT,
THESE TALES,
THAT WILL REMIND HIM OF A LAND WHICH
HE KNOWS SO WELL,
ARE AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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