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

CONTENTS

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PART I.

STORIES OF THE CULTIVATING CASTE AND VAEDDAS.

NO.
1	The Making of the Great Earth	47
2	The Sun, the Moon, and Great Paddy	52
3	The Story of Senasura	54
4	The Glass Princess	57
5	The Frog Prince	67
6	The Millet Trader	72
7	The Turtle Dove	79
8	The Prince and the Princess	93
9	Tamarind ?ikka	100
10	Matalange Loku-Appu	108
11	The White Turtle	113
12	The Black Storks’ Girl	120
13	The Golden Kaekiri Fruit	129
14	The Four Deaf Persons	134
15	The Prince and the Yaka	137
16	How a Yaka and a Man fought	146
17	Concerning a Man and Two Yakas	148
18	The Three Questions	150
19	The Faithless Princess	157
20	The Prince who did not go to School	160
21	Nagul-Munna	169
22	The Kule-baka Flowers	173
23	Kurulu-gama Appu, the Soothsayer	179
24	How a Prince was chased by a Yaksani	186
25	The Wicked King	191
26	The Kitul Seeds	197
27	The Speaking Horse	199
28	The Female Quail	201
29	The Pied Robin	206
30	The Jackal and the Hare	209
31	The Leopard and the Mouse-deer	213
32	The Crocodile’s Wedding	216
33	The Gamarala’s Cakes	219
34	The Kinnara and the Parrots	224
35	How a Jackal settled a Lawsuit	228
36	The Jackal and the Turtle	234
37	The Lion and the Turtle	241

PART II.

STORIES OF THE LOWER CASTES.

38	The Monkey and the Weaver-Bird (Potter)							247
39	The Jackal Devatawa (Washerman)							249

STORIES OF THE TOM-TOM BEATERS.

The Foolishness of Tom-tom Beaters 252

40	A Ka?ambawa Man’s Journey to Puttalam	253
41	The Ka?ambawa Men and the Hares	255
42	The Ka?ambawa Men and the Mouse-deer	256
43	The Ka?ambawa Men and the Bush	257
44	How the Ka?ambawa Men counted Themselves	258
45	The Ka?ambawa Men and the Dream	260
46	The Four Tom-tom Beaters	262
47	The Golden Tree	264
48	The Seven Princesses	270
49	Mr. Janel SiÑÑa	278
50	The Nikini Story	284
51	The Aet-kanda Leniya	291
52	The Wimali Story	302
53	The Pots of Oil	304
54	The Mouse Maiden	308
55	Sigiris SiÑÑo, the Giant	312
56	The Proud Jackal	316

STORIES OF THE DURAYAS.

57	The Seven Robbers	317
58	The Stupid Boy	319
59	The Gamarala and the Washerman	322
60	The Two Thieves	330
61	The Margosa Tree	334
62	The Gamarala’s Foolish Son	336
63	The Jackal’s Judgment	339
64	The Heron and the Crab	342
65	The Jackal and the Brahma?a	347
66	The Cat who guarded the Precepts	349
67	The Lizard and the Leopard	355
68	The Lion and the Jackal	359

STORIES OF THE RO?IYAS.

69	The Roll of Cotton	364
70	The Jackal and the Leopard	367
71	How the Boars killed the Rakshasa	370
72	The Grateful Jackal	373

STORIES OF THE KINNARAS.

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