Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Volume 2 (of 3)

In a Soninka story of Senegambia in Contes Soudanais (C. Monteil), p. 145, there are incidents of the same type. A hunter met with a female gazelle, which recommended him to loo...

After they got this meaning explained, these seven men spoke together, "Let us make up a trick at this place." Speaking [thus] together, they arrived at a city at which there is...

Afterwards this girl having unfastened the sack, when she looked the youngster was [in it]. Having brought the bill-hook, when she was about (lit., making) to cut up the youngst...

"Afterwards he told me to throw down a Damba branch; I threw down two Damba branches. Saying and saying [it was only] until the time when the Leopard was going, I stayed in the...

After that, the Princess marrying the Prince, when he was there for a considerable time the Prince said, "I must go to our city and come back." Then the Princess said, "I also m...

Thereupon the man having spoken to them and said, "If so, come; there is a thatching at my house," and having gone to the house, calling them, said, "Here. Cover this large hous...

After they came, because those Princes went in white clothes on the backs of white horses, this Prince said, "You must bring and give me very speedily an excellent [292] horse,...

On a certain day, a man having gone to a chena which he had cut, and in which he had sown grain, as he was walking along at the edge of the fence, on this side of the corner of...

In Cinq Cents Contes et Apologues (Chavannes), vol. iii, p. 256, a religious mendicant gave an inexhaustible jar of copper to a poor man who had presented food to him, and warne...

The Gourd laughs at its contracting (lit., tying) the marriage with the young Queen. Through shame at it, grief was produced in her. When she asked for a medicine for [the illne...

While Three-cubits is looking after the younger sister, one day the younger sister, having called to remembrance her mother, began to weep. Thereupon he said, "Four-cubits, youn...

When this Prince went from that city to another city, he saw that on account of a want of money the King was selling a Princess and two Princes of the King of the city; and this...

Then the Queen began to tell him everything,--the way in which she made the bet with that King, the way in which she came away, the way in which she bore [a child], the way in w...

In Folk-Tales of Kashmir (Knowles), 2nd ed., pp. 191 ff., four Princes were changed into stones by a Jogi, or Hindu ascetic. In a footnote, p. 192, Mr. Knowles gives references...

Then the other one, having arisen very quietly, when he looks for the box of things, the box of things is not there. When he sought and looked about for it, he did not meet with...

Then all the party asked her about the matters. The Queen having told them the manner in which all had occurred, caused that Moorman to be brought, and gave him presents. In add...

Then the man says, "Well, then, what shall I do? In my hand also there is not a thing to give for food. There is an Attikka tree [37]; on that Attikka tree the fruit will be rip...

After he stayed there many days, this Princess asks this nobleman's son, "What do you know of the sciences?" Then he says, "I don't know a single one." Having said, "If so, you...

Then a Bana (reading of the Buddhist Scriptures) having been appointed at the pansala near that village, all are going to the Bana. This woman says, "Owing to the fate which my...

At that time, [as he believed this], having removed the stones and earth [that he had placed] in the tunnel down which the Prince went, the King also began to go. Having handed...

At the Gamarala's house there were twelve hens for one cock. One day, the two old people quarrelling while the Gamarala is on the raised veranda, the cock says to the hens, "Ane...

In the Wevaelkaetiya Inscription (Epigraphia Zeylanica, vol. i, p. 250), King Mahinda IV. (A.D. 1026-1042) ordered that persons convicted of robbery with violence should be hang...

In The Indian Antiquary, vol. xvii, p. 50, in a Salsette story by Mr. G. Fr. D'Penha, a Prince to avoid marrying his sister went away with a hunter and a carpenter. At a deserte...

These seven persons spoke, "Should that one's elder brothers come, indeed, we shall be unable to kill her. Before they come let us kill her." Having spoken thus, and having put...

Thereupon the Princess, in order to keep the Prince in the very palace, told a smith of the city to come secretly; and having given him also a thousand masuran, and made the man...

Then the Queen said to the Prince, "As you have not got any learning he has settled to behead you. Because of it, leave this city, and go somewhere or other." Having said [this]...

Thereupon the two Rakshasas came near the Gamarala. Then the Tom-tom Beater, from the top of the tree, having shaken the leaves and beaten the drum first, said, "After I descend...

Then a man, being in the house, said, "Strumpet, don't thou tell lies." Scolding her in this manner, the man also came out and looked; when he looked, in very truth (haebaewatam...

After the Gamarala went away, he lowered out of the corn-store one and a half amunas of paddy, and having taken them placed them in the rice field; and having come back, and gon...

In the Katha Sarit Sagara (Tawney), vol. i, p. 519, a young Brahmana suggested to a Prince that he should receive a daily salary of one hundred gold pieces; this was paid to him...

On the following day, on seeing the garland-making mother he said, "Your son is a very great clever person. In the midst of the Great Sea there will be a great Blue-Lotus flower...

While she was there, the woman having placed paddy on the hearth, and waited until the time when it is boiling, said to that sister-in-law, "Sister-in-law, having gone rubbing c...

With regard to the elephant's falling into the pool and being unable to get out, the very thing occurred during a severe drought in the North-western Province in 1877. At a smal...

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[198] Sarpayingen gahana sitadika ratakata gos. The meaning is not clear; apparently, as the bodies of snakes are always cold, they were in such numbers that they chilled the ai...