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                      VILLAGE FOLK-TALES OF CEYLON

                                 Vol. I


                      Collected and Translated by

                               H. PARKER

               Late of the Irrigation Department, Ceylon


                                 LONDON
                               LUZAC & CO
                     Publishers to the India Office
                                  1910








CONTENTS


                                                    PAGE

Introduction                                           1


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 Tikka                                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
