Folk-Tales of Bengal
Lal Behari Day
Twenty-two tales told by Bengali grandmothers
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- 24
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- min
- ~330
- min
- First published
- 1883
- English
About this book
Kings with two queens, clever jackals, ghosts, rakshasas and princes with the moon on their foreheads. Twenty-two old Bengali folk-tales, collected and told in English by Lal Behari Day.
Author: Lal Behari Day (1824–1894)
Contents
- 1 Preface
- 2 Life’s Secret
- 3 Phakir Chand
- 4 The Indigent Brahman
- 5 The Story of the Rakshasas
- 6 The Story of Swet-Basanta
- 7 The Evil Eye of Sani
- 8 The Boy whom Seven Mothers suckled
- 9 The Story of Prince Sobur
- 10 The Origin of Opium
- 11 Strike but Hear
- 12 The Adventures of Two Thieves and of their Sons
- 13 The Ghost-Brahman
- 14 The Man who wished to be Perfect
- 15 A Ghostly Wife
- 16 The Story of a Brahmadaitya
- 17 The Story of a Hiraman
- 18 The Origin of Rubies
- 19 The Match-making Jackal
- 20 The Boy with the Moon on his Forehead
- 21 The Ghost who was Afraid of being Bagged
- 22 The Field of Bones
- 23 The Bald Wife
- 24 Notes
Why this book is free
- The collector and translator, Lal Behari Day, died in 1894; Indian copyright (life + 60 years) has ended.
- First published in 1883 (before 1931), so public domain in the United States.
- Source: Project Gutenberg eBook #38488 — Macmillan, 1912 edition of the 1883 text
- Day’s preface, all 22 tales and his explanatory notes at the end (the numbers in square brackets in the tales point to them). The colour pictures by Warwick Goble are not included. The old-style spelling of the 1883 text is kept.