Tales of the Punjab: Folklore of India. Flora Annie Webster Steel

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       TO THE LITTLE READER

       TALES OF THE PUNJAB

       SIR BUZZ

       THE RAT'S WEDDING

       THE FAITHFUL PRINCE

       THE BEAR'S BAD BARGAIN

       PRINCE LIONHEART AND HIS THREE FRIENDS

       THE LAMBIKIN

       BOPOLÛCHÎ

       PRINCESS AUBERGINE

       VALIANT VICKY, THE BRAVE WEAVER

       THE SON OF SEVEN MOTHERS

       THE SPARROW AND THE CROW

       THE TIGER, THE BRAHMÂN, AND THE JACKAL

       THE KING OF THE CROCODILES

       LITTLE ANKLEBONE

       THE CLOSE ALLIANCE

       THE TWO BROTHERS

       THE JACKAL AND THE IGUANA

       THE DEATH AND BURIAL OF POOR HEN-SPARROW

       PRINCESS PEPPERINA

       PEASIE AND BEANSIE

       THE JACKAL AND THE PARTRIDGE

       THE SNAKE-WOMAN AND KING ALI MARDAN

       THE WONDERFUL RING

       THE JACKAL AND THE PEA-HEN

       THE GRAIN OF CORN

       THE FARMER AND THE MONEY-LENDER

       THE LORD OF DEATH

       THE WRESTLERS

       THE LEGEND OF GWÂSHBRÂRI, THE GLACIER-HEARTED QUEEN

       THE BARBER'S CLEVER WIFE

       THE JACKAL AND THE CROCODILE

       HOW RAJA RASÂLU WAS BORN

       HOW RAJA RASÂLU WENT OUT INTO THE WORLD

       HOW RAJA RASÂLU'S FRIENDS FORSOOK HIM

       HOW RAJA RASÂLU KILLED THE GIANTS

       HOW RAJA RASÂLU BECAME A JÔGI

       HOW RAJA RASÂLU JOURNEYED TO THE CITY OF KING SARKAP

       HOW RAJA RASÂLU SWUNG THE SEVENTY FAIR MAIDENS, DAUGHTERS OF THE KING

       HOW RAJA RASÂLU PLAYED CHAUPUR WITH KING SARKAP

       THE KING WHO WAS FRIED

       PRINCE HALF-A-SON

       THE MOTHER AND DAUGHTER WHO WORSHIPPED THE SUN

       THE RUBY PRINCE

       SIR BUZZ

       THE RAT'S WEDDING

       THE FAITHFUL PRINCE

       THE BEAR'S BAD BARGAIN

       PRINCE LIONHEART

       THE LAMBIKIN

       BOPOLUCHI