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Folk-Tales of Bengal

Lal Behari Day

  • Children
  • Book language: English
  • 163 pages

A collection of traditional Bengali folk tales gathered by Lal Behari Day, first published in 1883 and later illustrated by Warwick Goble. Written for children, it preserves stories from Bengal's oral tradition, full of imagination and everyday wisdom. It is worth listening to as an inviting introduction to Bengali folklore.

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Folk-Tales of Bengal

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED

LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA

MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO

DALLAS · SAN FRANCISCO

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD.

TORONTO

“She rushed out of the palace ... and came to the upper world.”

“She rushed out of the palace ... and came to the upper world.”

Folk-Tales of Bengal

By the
Rev. Lal Behari Day
Author of ‘Bengal Peasant Life,’ etc.
With 32 illustrations in colour
By Warwick Goble
Macmillan and Co., Limited
St. Martin’s Street, London
1912
COPYRIGHT
First Edition 1883
With Coloured Illustrations by Warwick Goble, 1912

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Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Contents
  3. Illustrations
  4. I Life’s Secret
  5. II Phakir Chand
  6. III The Indigent Brahman
  7. IV The Story of the Rakshasas
  8. V The Story of Swet-Basanta
  9. VI The Evil Eye of Sani
  10. VII The Boy whom Seven Mothers Suckled
  11. VIII The Story of Prince Sobur
  12. IX The Origin of Opium1
  13. X Strike but Hear
  14. XI The Adventures of Two Thieves and of their Sons
  15. XII The Ghost-Brahman
  16. XIII The Man who wished to be Perfect
  17. XIV A Ghostly Wife
  18. XV The Story of a Brahmadaitya1
  19. XVI The Story of a Hiraman1
  20. XVII The Origin of Rubies
  21. XVIII The Match-making Jackal
  22. XIX The Boy with the Moon on his Forehead
  23. XX The Ghost who was Afraid of being Bagged
  24. XXI The Field of Bones
  25. XXII The Bald Wife
  26. Colophon
  27. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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