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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
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