Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Volume 1 (of 3)

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Part I

STORIES TOLD BY THE CULTIVATING CASTE AND VAEDD?S .

No. 1

The Making of the Great Earth

No. 2

The Sun, the Moon, and Great Paddy

No. 3

The Story of Senasur? 1

No. 4

The Glass Princess

No. 5

The Frog Prince

No. 6

The Millet Trader

No. 7

The Turtle Dove

No. 8

The Prince and the Princess

No. 9

Tamarind ?ikk?

No. 10

M?talang? Loku-Appu

No. 11

The White Turtle

No. 12

The Black Storks' Girl

No. 13

The Golden Kaekiri Fruit

No. 14

The Four Deaf Persons

No. 15

The Prince and the Yak?

No. 16

How a Yak? and a Man fought

No. 17

Concerning a Man and Two Yak?s

No. 18

The Three Questions 1

No. 19

The Faithless Princess

No. 20

The Prince who did not go to School

No. 21

Nagul-Munn?

No. 22

The Kul?-bak? Flowers

No. 23

Kurulu-gama Appu, the Sooth-sayer

No. 24

How a Prince was chased by a Yaksan?, and what befel

No. 25

The Wicked King

No. 26

The Kitul Seeds

No. 27

The Speaking Horse

No. 28

The Female Quail

No. 29

The Pied Robin

No. 30

The Jackal and the Hare

No. 31

The Leopard and the Mouse-deer

No. 32

The Crocodile's Wedding

No. 33

The Gamar?la's Cakes

No. 34

The Kinnar? and the Parrots

No. 35

How a Jackal settled a Lawsuit.

No. 36

The Jackal and the Turtle

No. 37

The Lion and the Turtle

Part II

STORIES TOLD OF OR BY THE LOWER CASTES

No. 38

The Monkey and the Weaver-bird

No. 39

The Jackal D?vat?w?

No. 40

A Ka?amb?wa Man's Journey to Puttalam

No. 41

The Ka?amb?wa Men and the Hares

No. 42

The Ka?amb?wa Men and the Mouse-deer

No. 43

The Ka?amb?wa Men and the Bush

No. 44

How the Ka?amb?wa Men counted Themselves

No. 45

The Ka?amb?wa Men and the Dream

No. 46

The Four Tom-tom Beaters

No. 47

The Golden Tree

No. 48

The Seven Princesses

No. 49

Mr. Janel Sinn?

No. 50

The Nikini Story 1

No. 51

The Aet-kanda L?niy? 1

No. 52

The Wimal? Story

No. 53

The Pots of Oil

No. 54

The Mouse Maiden 1

No. 55

S?giris Sinn?, the Giant

No. 56

The Proud Jackal

STORIES OF THE DURAY?S

No. 57

The Seven Robbers

No. 58

The Stupid Boy

No. 59

The Gamar?la and the Washerman

No. 60

The Two Thieves

No. 61

The Marg?sa Tree

No. 62

The Gamar?la's Foolish Son

No. 63

The Jackal's Judgment

No. 64

The Heron and the Crab

No. 65

The Jackal and the Br?hma?a

No. 66

The Cat who guarded the Precepts

No. 67

The Lizard and the Leopard

No. 68

The Lion and the Jackal

STORIES OF THE RO?IY?S

No. 69

The Roll of Cotton

No. 70

The Jackal and the Leopard

No. 71

How the Boars killed the R?kshasa

No. 72

The Grateful Jackal

STORIES OF THE KINNAR?S

No. 73

Concerning a Monk and a Yak?

No. 74

The Three Suitors

No. 75

The Crocodile and the Jackal

INDEX

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