36.--Pride shall have a Fall

Told by AKBAR SHÁH, Mánjhi, one of the jungle-folk of

Manbasa, district Mirzápur.

No change. The animal with one eye is supposed to be cunning and uncanny

(Crooke, "Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India," ii. 37,

51). Compare No. 37 of this collection.

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