Village Folk-Tal
章节目录
共 347 题- VILLAGE FOLK-TALES OF CEYLON
- Vol. II
- Collected and Translated by
- H. PARKER
- Late of the Irrigation Department, Ceylon
- CONTENTS
- STORIES OF THE CULTIVATING CASTE
- NO. PAGE
- Index 449
- STORIES OF THE CULTIVATING CASTE
- NO. 76
- A LEGEND OF KANDY [1]
- NO. 77
- THE GAMARALA'S DAUGHTER
- The crow said, "Being without a light, what art thou lamenting for?"
- The King replied, "I will give a gold ring."
- Then the King said, "How didst thou go to my palace?"
- NO. 78
- THE GAMARALA'S GIRL
- So the girl asked, "What is it, father, you are crying for?"
- So the girl asked, "What, father, are you crying for to-day also?"
- The King said, "How, girl, are men [affected like women]?"
- NO. 79
- HOW GOURDS WERE PUT IN SMALL-MOUTHED POTS
- Then the girl said, "I will get a dirty cloth [set] on your head."
- Thereupon the girl said, "Break up the hat and look."
- NO. 80
- THE ROYAL PRINCE AND THE CARPENTER'S SON
- The Prince said, "How is the way to take the stone?"
- The Prince said, "I cannot; you go and bring it."
- The Princess asked, "What, mother, are you weeping and weeping for?"
- NO. 81
- CONCERNING A ROYAL PRINCE AND A PRINCESS [19]
- NO. 82
- THE PRINCES WHO LEARNT THE SCIENCES
- THE NOBLEMAN [25] AND HIS FIVE SONS. (Variant a.)
- THE SEVEN PRINCES. (Variant b.)
- THE ATTEMPT OF FOUR BRAHMANA PRINCES TO MARRY. (Variant c.)
- NO. 83
- THE STORY OF KALUNDAWA
- NO. 84
- HOW THE POOR PRINCE BECAME KING
- Then the Prince said, "No, grandfather, I can fight very well."
- Then the King asked, "If so, owing to whom did you win in this battle?"
- The Prince said, "I am a stranger."
- Then the King asked, "What dost thou want done?"
- NO. 85
- HOW THE GARDENER BECAME KING
- The King said, "That man by this time is asleep."
- NO. 86
- HOW THE FOOLISH MAN BECAME KING
- Then the Vaedda asked, "What happened to you?"
- NO. 87
- THE FOOLISH MAN
- Then the girl's father says, "What, daughter, are you frying?"
- Thereupon the woman said, "There are two for you."
- NO. 88
- THE STORY OF MARIRALA
- NO. 89
- THE INVISIBLE SILK ROBE [46]
- NO. 90
- THE FOOLISH YOUTH
- The youth said, "How is the price for these plates?"
- The boy said, "Ha. I will stay [with you]."
- NO. 91
- THE STORY OF THE SEVEN THIEVES
- NO. 92
- THE KING WHO BECAME A THIEF
- The Ministers said, "We are going to seize the thief."
- Then the Prince said, "If so, am I to tell you?" He said, "Ha."
- Then the King said, "It is true."
- Then the King said, "It is true."
- NO. 93
- THE FEMALE FOWL THIEF
- That day, also, the woman said, "Ane! Appa! I cannot go alone."
- NO. 94
- GAMPOLAYA AND RAEHIGAMAYA
- NO. 95
- THE STORY OF THE TWO LIARS
- Thereupon the man asked, "Where?"
- NO. 96
- THE THREE HETTIYAS
- NO. 97
- CONCERNING TWO FRIENDS
- The man, taking the plate, asked, "With this plate what shall I do?"
- The Hettiya asked, "Appuhami, have you met with anything even to-day?"
- The man asked, "With this cudgel what shall I do?"
- The man said, "To-day I obtained a cudgel."
- Then the Hettiya asked, "What is the name of the cudgel?"
- NO. 98
- CONCERNING FOUR FRIENDS
- NO. 99
- CONCERNING A HORSE
- NO. 100
- THE STORY OF THE PEARL NECKLACE
- Then the King asked, "Where is it now?"
- The man said, "I gave it to the Treasurer (sitano) of this city."
- The King asked, "Where is the necklace now?"
- Then the Treasurer said, "I gave it to a courtesan woman."
- Then the King asked, "Where is it now?"
- The King said, "If so, who are the thieves who took this necklace?"
- NO. 101
- THE WIDOW WOMAN AND LOKU-APPUHAMI
- Hearing that, the old woman asked, "Whence is there money for you?"
- Then Loku-Appu said, "If so, unfasten me."
- NO. 102
- THE DECOCTION OF EIGHT NELLI FRUITS [89]
- NO. 103.
- THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS AND TWO DEVATAWAS
- NO. 104
- CONCERNING THE PRINCE AND THE PRINCESS WHO WAS SOLD
- This Princess having heard it, asked, "What does it say?"
- Thereupon the Prince said, "I do not want the debt."
- NO. 105
- THE PRINCESS HETTIRALA
- NO. 106
- THE MAEHIYALLE-GAMA PRINCESS
- Then the Prince said, "I am neither a Yaka nor a Deity; a man."
- Then the Princess asked, "For what matter has He Himself come here?"
- The Princess said, "If so, stay."
- NO. 107
- THE WICKED PRINCESS
- NO. 108
- HOLMAN PISSA
- NO. 109
- CONCERNING A VAEDDA AND A BRIDE
- At that time the Vaedda thought, "A better shooter than I is this one."
- NO. 110
- A STORY ABOUT A VAEDDA [110]
- NO. 111
- THE STORY OF THE FOUR GIANTS [112]
- The three persons said, "We are going to seek a means of subsistence."
- At that time the woman said, "I did not see them."
- The Princess said, "Yes, he has confidence in me."
- At that time the Prince (giant) said, "My life is in the sword."
- Thereupon the giants asked, "Whence came the woman?"
- NO. 112
- THE STORY ABOUT A GIANT
- The giant said, "I am not unable to do it."
- NO. 113
- HITIHAMI THE GIANT
- Then the men said, "We have come together to cut a paddy kayiya."
- The men said, "It is very good; let us cut."
- NO. 114
- THE NEW SPEECH [136]
- Then the Gamarala, having become pleased, said, "It is very good."
- Then the son-in-law said, "Not he, mother-in-law; he hasn't come yet."
- The father-in-law asked, "What is [the meaning of] that, son-in-law?"
- After he said it, he asked, "Did you warm water for me to bathe?"
- Then the Gamarala said, "I can bathe [myself]. You go."
- The father-in-law replied, [jokingly,] "There are cobras in it."
- The father-in-law said, "That is for the road."
- NO. 115
- THE MASTER AND SERVANT
- NO. 116
- HOW THE SON-IN-LAW CUT THE CHENA
- The father-in-law said, "Where, son-in-law, are we going still?"
- Then the father-in-law asked, "Where, son-in-law, is the chena?"
- NO. 117
- A GIRL AND A STEP-MOTHER
- NO. 118
- THE WICKED ELDER BROTHER
- The woman says, "Well, what is it to me, if it be good to you?"
- NO. 119
- NAHAKOTA'S WEDDING FEAST
- Afterwards, Nahakota having wept, remained there quietly. [154]
- NO. 120
- HOW A MAN CHARMED A THREAD
- NO. 121
- HOW THE RICE AND CURRY BECAME RAW
- NO. 122
- HOW A WOMAN ATE COOKED RICE BY STEALTH
- NO. 123
- HOW A WOMAN OFFERED CAKES
- NO. 124
- THE MANNER IN WHICH A WOMAN PREPARED A FLOUR FIGURE
- NO. 125
- HOW A WOMAN BECAME A LAPWING [166]
- Well then, we came here. [176]
- NO. 126
- THE STORY OF THE SEVEN WICKED WOMEN [177]
- NO. 127
- THE STORY OF THE OLD MAN [182]
- NO. 128
- THE MAGIC LUTE PLAYER [185]
- NO. 129
- THE LAD WHO SANG SONGS
- NO. 130
- THE HUNCHBACK TALE
- The story is a variant of No. 29, vol. i, "The Pied Robin."
- NO. 131
- THE POOR MAN AND THE JEWELS
- NO. 132
- THE LEARNED POOR MAN
- Then the man who came afterwards asked, "What is it?"
- NO. 133
- A POOR MAN AND A WOMAN
- The Devatawa asked, "What dost thou want?"
- The man said, "I want goods."
- NO. 134
- THE STORY OF THE RAKSHASA AND THE PRINCESS [205]
- NO. 135
- THE WAY THE RAKSHASI DIED
- NO. 136
- HOW A RAKSHASA TURNED MEN AND BULLS INTO STONE
- NO. 137
- THE RAKSHASA-EATING PRAKSHASA [211]
- Then both the elder brothers asked, "Where did he bring her?"
- Then the ass, becoming afraid, got up, making a sound, "Didi-bidi."
- THE RAKSHASIS-EATING PRAKSHASA. [218] (Variant b.)
- Thereupon the Rakshasa having arisen, asked, "Who art thou?"
- The Tom-tom Beater said, "I myself am the Rakshasis-eating Prakshasa."
- THE RICE-DUST PORRIDGE. (Variant c.)
- The Gamarala says, "Where, Bolat, [221] have I the money [for it]?"
- The Rakshasa having heard the talk, said, "What, Bola, is that I hear?"
- Again that Tom-tom Beater says, "Gamarahami, I must go out."
- THE EVIDENCE THAT THE APPUHAMI ATE PADDY DUST. (Variant d.)
- The Rakshasi having become afraid, asked her daughter, "What is this?"
- NO. 138
- THE STORY OF THE CAKE TREE
- One day the youngster said, "Mother, let us cook cakes."
- THE LAD AND THE RAKSHASI. (Variant a.)
- THE CAKE TREE. (Variant b.)
- NO. 139
- THE GIRL, THE MONK, AND THE LEOPARD
- NO. 140
- THE WASHERMAN AND THE LEOPARD
- Then the Washerman having come, asked, "What is it?"
- He said, "Kill the leopard."
- NO. 141
- THE FRIGHTENED YAKA
- NO. 142
- THE STORY OF THE SEVEN YAKAS
- NO. 143
- THE YAKA AND THE TOM-TOM BEATER
- When he asked it [he replied], "I am going to a devil-dance."
- NO. 144
- HOW A TOM-TOM BEATER GOT A MARRIAGE FROM A GAMARALA
- The Gamarala, being afraid, said, "I will hearken."
- NO. 145
- THE GEM YAKSANI
- The Queen, walking with the Prince, said, "Which is the house?"
- Then the Queen's Prince said to the King, "I can."
- The King asked, "Do you know the path to go on?"
- The Prince said, "I will ask mother, and go."
- Then the King said, "What is necessary for you?"
- Then this Prince asked the Devata-daughter, "Who art thou?"
- The Prince said, "I am a royal Prince."
- The Yaksani asked the Prince, "Where are you going, Sir?"
- The Prince said, "I came to seek a gem-stone."
- The Devata-daughter said, "I will give them; I have them."
- Then the King said, "Where? Let me look at them."
- The King asked, "What is the stratagem?"
- NO. 146
- THE NA, MI, AND BLUE-LOTUS FLOWERS' PRINCESSES
- Thereupon the Prince says, "How do you know?"
- These three say, "Now, now, you will obtain it."
- Thereupon the four persons say, "Ane! We cannot recognise you."
- Thereupon the King says, "Don't cry. The thing I said became correct."
- THE STORY OF THE SHE-GOAT. (Variant a.)
- THE STORY OF A NOBLEMAN'S SON. [275] (Variant b.)
- NO. 147
- THE LOSS THAT OCCURRED TO THE NOBLEMAN'S DAUGHTER
- NO. 148
- THE RATEMAHATMAYA'S PRESENTS
- NO. 149
- THE PRINCE AND THE MINISTER
- Then the Minister says, "Tell me a mark of the Princess's."
- The King said, "Minister, if you brought it give her it."
- NO. 150
- THE STORY OF KING BAMBA
- NO. 151
- CONCERNING A ROYAL PRINCESS AND A TURTLE
- Thereupon the Turtle said, "I have brought a Suriya-kanta flower."
- NO. 152
- THE STORY OF A KING AND A PRINCE
- After that, the Prince asks, "Whose house is that, mother?"
- The woman says, "It is not a fault to sit [on the golden chair]."
- After that, the Yakas having come, ask, "Who came here?"
- The Yakshani said, "We will do no harm to him."
- NO. 153
- THE STORY OF THE GOURD
- NO. 154
- THE STORY OF THE SHELL SNAIL
- NO. 155
- THE QUEEN OF THE ROCK HOUSE [301]
- NO. 155A
- THE STORY OF THE ELDER SISTER AND YOUNGER BROTHER
- NO. 156
- THE QUEEN AND THE BEGGAR
- NO. 157
- THE FROG IN THE QUEEN'S NOSE
- NO. 158
- CONCERNING A BEAR AND THE QUEEN
- The Bear asked the Queen, "What are you going for?"
- NO. 159
- THE LEOPARD AND THE PRINCESS
- Then the sister-in-law said, "There will not be Damba here to give."
- Then the Princes asked, "Where is the Leopard?"
- NO. 160
- THE STORY OF THE FOOLISH LEOPARD
- NO. 161
- THE STORY OF THE DABUKKA [329]
- NO. 162
- THE LEOPARD AND THE CALF
- NO. 163
- THE ASH-PUMPKIN FRUIT PRINCE
- NO. 164
- THE KABARAGOYA AND THE WIDOW
- NO. 165
- THE FROG JACKET
- Thereupon the house persons asked, "Is there a daughter?"
- NO. 166
- THE FOUR-FACED KING AND THE TURTLE
- After that, the Four-faced King says, "We do not eat this food."
- Then the turtles ask, "If so, O Four-faced King, what do you eat?"
- Thereupon the Four-faced King said, "We eat rice and curry."
- NO. 167
- THE STORY OF THE COBRA AND THE PRINCE
- Further, the Nagaya says to the Prince, "Lie down there."
- NO. 168
- THE ANT STORY
- NO. 169
- THE GAMARALA AND THE COCK
- NO. 170
- CONCERNING THE GOLDEN PEACOCK
- NO. 171
- THE STORY OF THE BRAHMANA'S KITTEN
- NO. 172
- THE STORY OF THE MANGO BIRD
- Sir, behold! Be good enough to remain looking out."
- The Sinhalese query and rhyme are:--
- NO. 173
- HOW THE PARROT EXPLAINED THE LAW-SUIT
- The Barbet asked, "What is the other assistance?"
- NO. 174
- THE PARROT AND THE CROW
- Then the Parrot said, "I eat fruits possessing a good flavour."
- NO. 175
- THE CROW AND THE DARTER
- NO. 176
- CONCERNING THE CROWS AND THE OWLS
- NO. 177
- THE FEMALE LARK
- After that, the female Lark said, "It is good."
- On account of it, they still say in the form of verse:--
- NOTES