Laos Folk-Lore of Farther India
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Chapters (65)(click to expand)
- TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
- Introduction
- List of Illustrations.
- I Tales of the Jungle
- A Child of The Woods
- The Enchanted Mountain
- The Spirit-Guarded Cave
- The Mountain Spirits and the Stone Mortars
- II Fables From the Forest
- Right and Might
- Why the Lip of the Elephant Droops
- How a Dead Tiger Killed the Princess
- The Monkeys and the Crabs
- III Nature’s Riddles and Their Answers
- The Man in the Moon
- The Origin of Lightning
- Why the Parrot and the Minor Bird but Echo the Words of Man
- The Fatherless Birds
- IV Romance and Tragedy
- The Lovers’ Leap
- The Faithful Husband9
- The Faithful Wife
- An Unexpected Issue
- V Temples and Priests
- The Giants’ Mountain and the Temple
- Cheating the Priest
- The Disappointed Priest
- The Greedy Priest
- The Ambitious Priest
- VI Moderation and Greed
- The Wizard and the Beggar
- A Covetous Neighbor
- A Lazy Man’s Plot15
- The Ungrateful Fisherman
- The Legend of the Rice
- VII Parables and Proverbs
- “One Woman in Deceit and Craft is More Than a Match for Eight Men”
- “The Wisest Man of a Small Village is Not Equal in Wisdom to a Boy of the City Streets”
- “To Aid Beast is Merit; To Aid Man is but Vanity”17
- VIII The Gods Know and the Gods Reward
- Love’s Secrets
- Poison-Mouth
- Strife and Peace
- The Widow’s Punishment
- Honesty Rewarded
- The Justice of In Ta Pome
- IX Wonders of Wisdom
- The Words of Untold Value
- A Wise Philosopher
- The Boys Who Were Not Appreciated
- The Magic Well
- X Strange Fortunes of Strange People
- The Fortunes of Ai Powlo
- The Fortunes of a Lazy Beggar
- The Misfortunes of Paw Yan
- An Unfortunate Shot
- XI Stories Gone Astray
- The Blind Man
- Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
- The Great Boaster
- A Clever Thief
- Eyeless-Needle, Rotten-Egg, Rotten-Banana, Old-Fish and Broken-Pestle.
- For Work Among Children
- The Home and Children
- TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
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