Tale

2502 Demon |              while. His sword - it was three-and-thirty inches long - stuck in the
2503 Tiger |           tiger-king, walked round him thrice, and prostrating himself
2504 StNote|                see, fhe hangeth by the throte, and therefor fhe fpeaketh
2505 Ivory |              concerning it to be madee through-out all the city and surrounding
2506 StNote|             the men are decided by the throws of a long form of dice.
2507 Skin  |                he gained his living by tilling the ground.~At that time
2508 Raja  |            thou, oh King, the rest~But timid wild-fowl. Grant us. our
2509 GeNote|              Lorraine (Paris, 1886, 2° tirage, 1890), undoubtedly the
2510 Goeth |               seated chewing betel and tobacco. Meanwhile the song was
2511 StNote|              from the Hindu peasant of today a tale which was probably
2512 Ivory |               old woman's most careful toilette: how careful she was in
2513 Ivory |                son frowned slightly in token of disapproval; but the
2514 StNote|               272 - 4. I have slightly toned down the inflated style
2515 Magic |             them, she began in wailing tones to upbraid them on account
2516 Labam |              woman, "you may stay here tonight; but to-morrow morning you
2517 GeNote|               over 350 - a respectable total indeed, but a mere drop
2518 Lamb  |          frolicked about on his little tottery legs, and enjoyed himself
2519 GeNote|              from some European sailor touching at Goa? This is to a certain
2520 StNote|            Maiden "). Here we have the track of this remarkable idea
2521 Ivory |             bringing them with him, he tracked the prince to the lake,
2522 Goeth |              price of this cloth?" one trader will ask another.~"Enty
2523 Skin  |                go from place to place, trafficking in goods carried by an ass.
2524 Goeth |         meaning, because they had been trained in trade.~When two traders
2525 GeNote|             people sufficient literary training and mental grip to invent
2526 StNote|               is an essentially Indian trait; almost all Hindus have
2527 Lion  |             the lion was Devadatta the Traitor, but the white crane was
2528 Tiger |             and poor, great and small, trample on me as they go past, giving
2529 Queens|       golden-haired, that the King was transfixed by astonishment at seeing
2530 Pre   |             Sanskrit I have taken from translations, mostly from the German
2531 Pre   |             fortunate in their English translators, who render with vigour
2532 Tiger |                a tiger was caught in a trap. He tried in vain to get
2533 Rupees|                  First, If a person is travelling and reaches any strange
2534 Rupees|                But the jogi refused to tread the halls of a king, saying
2535 StNote|                and so saves the king's treasures, of which he gets an appropriate
2536 Raja  |               giving new ones from the treasury to those who did not possess
2537 Dinner|               also have a share in the treat.~On their return their mother,
2538 Tiger |              the jackal, pretending to tremble with fright; "yes! I was
2539 Laili |               and began to cut it open tremblingly, for he shook with fear;
2540 Pre   |                and Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. have allowed me to
2541 StNote|            almost all Hindus have some tribal or caste mark on their bodies
2542 GeNote|              all savage or semi-savage tribes. (See Note on No. iv.)~In
2543 Punch |               that she had played this trick because she wanted to gain
2544 Fish  |             magic and in all manner of trickery, were consulted. Nobody,
2545 Crane |                gasping, and with tears trickling from his eyes, and trembling
2546 Ivory |                 They have been playing tricks with you."~"You will soon
2547 StNote|             man's riches. The good man tries to make it up, but the serpent
2548 Money |         villain enough not to stick at trifles, he waited for a favourable
2549 StNote|           where it becomes part of the Tristan cycle. There is, so far
2550 Punch |                and jewelled pages, and troops of armed attendants.~"Give
2551 StNote|               West in the Anglo-Norman troubadour, Thomas' Lar Guirun, where
2552 Sons  |             and related to him all his troubles. The friend sympathised
2553 Raja  |               head with the highest, I trow,~Having my fun and my fling,~
2554 Lamb  |              then I can sit inside and trundle along nicely, for I'm as
2555 Demon |        Bodhisatta: "Demon, I came here trusting in myself. I advise you
2556 Ivory |               was delayed; perhaps the tsut was not quite ready, or
2557 Punch |                the Magician's left arm tumbled off.~"Give me my parrot!"
2558 Kings |            these ceased, the noise and tumult of litigation ceased in
2559 Magic |             chief, and after playing a tune or two on his fiddle asked
2560 Pre   |                the soft rain and green turf of Gaeldom, we seek the
2561 StNote|               in a hare, in the silver tusk of a wild boar"; in Rome
2562 StNote|             field, and thinking it the tutelary spirit of the field, he
2563 Pre   |         youngest. For it is only about twenty-five years ago that Miss Frere
2564 Laili |             marry you," she answered. "Twenty-four years ago you came to my
2565 GeNote|       Buddhists into the latest of the twenty-seven pre-incarnations of the
2566 Money |              eye!" And so he was, in a twinkling, but the moneylender of
2567 Raja  |             might come to life again,~'Twould be less lonely to talk to
2568 StNote|           century of variants to three type forms. The first occurs
2569 Pre   |              many stories of the Grimm types, lest I should repeat the
2570 StNote|               Wolf and the Crane as my typical example in my "History of
2571 StNote|                by Demetrius Phalereus, tyrant of Athens, and founder of
2572 Tiger |               and thinking, he reached UJjjaini. At once he inquired for
2573 StNote|          quotes the Kama Jataka as the ultimate source: it also occurs in
2574 Haris |                villages, with gold, an umbrella, and state carriages of
2575 Boy   |                he thought that two men unaided could not kill such a wicked
2576 StNote|              the ayahs. I have left it unaltered, except that I have replaced"
2577 Haris |             man possess such knowledge unattainable by men, without having studied
2578 StNote|               which Prof. H. Krohn was unaware, though it turns his whole
2579 Raja  |         replied, "My kittens are in an unbaked pot in the kiln yonder.
2580 Tiger |                 that remain unburnt or unburied within the range of your
2581 Tiger |            dying and dead, that remain unburnt or unburied within the range
2582 Tiger |                still for a time almost unconscious with joy. The pleasure of
2583 StNote|              in his dissertation, Mann und Fuchs (Helsingfors, 1891),
2584 StNote|                confessed, the tale has undergone considerable modification
2585 Tiger |       protector on his misfortune, and undertook to supply his protector
2586 Goeth |       tadingana."~The robbers were all uneducated, and thought that the leader
2587 GeNote|             particular are practically unexplored. There are doubtless many
2588 StNote|           gasteropod). It is obviously unfair of Mr. Batten both to illustrate
2589 Laili |              was broad, and this knife unfolded itself in one instant till
2590 Ivory |                the corpses of the poor unfortunates who chanced to fall into
2591 Ring  |                allow the rat to depart unharmed. If you do not, then your
2592 Crane |              for the fishes is a thing unheard of, sir, since the world
2593 StNote|               Baluchi tales.~Remarks.- Unholy fakirs are rather rare.
2594 Raja  |               the only one who escaped unhurt was the maiden who loved
2595 Tiger |             the orders of their kings, united in killing as many persons
2596 Tortoi|              in two! And there arose a universal cry, "A tortoise has fallen
2597 Fish  |                from an ignominious and unjust death, and the King from
2598 Punch |                said, "Oh no, do not be unkind, Balna. The girl would never
2599 Raja  |              Grant us. our request, - ~Unloose these chains, and live for
2600 Prince|            wants to fight, I am not so unmanly as to turn my back. Come,
2601 Punch |                 however, thought Balna unnecessarily suspicious, and, instead
2602 StNote|          portions of Babrius which are unparalleled by Phaedrus. Consequently,
2603 GeNote|          12,000, but most of these lie unprinted among the archives of the
2604 Boy   |                Off jumped the prince. "Unsaddle me and take off my bridle;
2605 Raja  |                wiles - ~My flight, all unspurr'd, will be swift as a bird,~
2606 Boy   |             was very wicked, and quite untamable. No one had ever been able
2607 StNote|                among the Jatakas still untranslated.~XXII. THE BOY WITH MOON
2608 Tiger |               into a red, stout, huge, unwieldy mass of flesh. Thus passed
2609 Tiger |              home.~It so happened that unwittingly be took a wrong road, and
2610 Magic |              began in wailing tones to upbraid them on account of the treatment
2611 Ivory |                was walking about in an upper room' of a house close by.
2612 Lion  |                he placed a small stick upright between his two jaws that
2613 Raja  |                it ran about the board, upsetting the chaupur pieces on the
2614 Ivory |              from the age of ten years upwards, assembled and marched by
2615 Tiger |              anything else! Here am I, useful to everybody, yet all, rich
2616 Lion  |             gratitude,~To serve him is useless.~"His friendship is not
2617 StNote|               of Rome. The Hebrew form uses the lion, not the wolf,
2618 Tiger |               of a capital offence was ushered to breathe his last there
2619       | using
2620 GeNote|         folk-tales, and it is with the utmost difficulty that one can
2621 Ivory |           vizier's son pretended to be utterly ignorant of the place and
2622 Raja  |           small matter;~For fear of my valour, I wot,~His armour will
2623 GeNote|              stories of Vikram and the Vampire (Vetala), translated among
2624 Magic |               pitcher, the water shall vanish, and again slowly reappear.
2625 Tiger |             wood, seized the king, and vanished.~When the king's attendants
2626 StNote|               for caste in Sanskrit is varna, "colour"; and one Hindu
2627 Tiger |               with no signs of life or vegetation. The little store of provision
2628 StNote|               lion and a serpent and a Venetian named Vitalis were saved
2629 StNote|                 Afterwards fearing its vengence he brought food and honey
2630 GeNote|         Shakespeare in the Merchant of Venice.~Some of the Indian tales
2631 StNote|              Javasakuna Jataka. I have ventured to English Prof. Fausböll'
2632 StNote|            1892, pp. 52 - 6, with some verbal alterations. A Bonga is
2633 Tortoi|              he uttered these Verses:~"Verily the tortoise killed himself~
2634 GeNote|                Vikram and the Vampire (Vetala), translated among others
2635 Crane |              with his claws, as with a vice.~Then gasping, and with
2636 Goeth |             thieves, glorying in their victory, and little understanding
2637 Sons  |              ingrates! Previously they vied with one another in trying
2638 Pre   |                German of Benfey or the vigorous English of Professor Rhys-Davids,
2639 GeNote|               there are the stories of Vikram and the Vampire (Vetala),
2640 Crane |               Shall prosper not by his villainy.~He may win indeed, sharp-witted
2641 Tiger |            till at last be reached the Vindhya mountains. While passing
2642 Ring  |           whereupon the ogress coughed violently, and the ring came out and
2643 GeNote|       mentioned as identical with, the virtuous hero of the folk-tale. These
2644 Demon |              seeks for peace by living virtuously,~He in due time will sever
2645 Rupees|              has a married sister, and visits her in great pomp, she will
2646 StNote|                the Directorium Humanae Vita of John of Capua, a converted
2647 GeNote|               of India, because of the vitality of animism or metempsychosis
2648 StNote|               Cosquin does point out - viz., that the Sicilian story
2649 Raja  |                yours now!"~Then Sarkap vowed a solemn vow never to play
2650 Magic |           called upon their Bonga, and vowing vows unto them they secured
2651 Magic |                their Bonga, and vowing vows unto them they secured his
2652 StNote|          version of the Arabic Kalilah wa Dimnah, which was itself
2653 Lamb  |                until he could scarcely waddle, and his Granny said he
2654 Fish  |                 Presently, they had to wade through a stream that ran
2655 StNote|                 Similarly, the " Bride Wager" incident at the end is
2656 Rupees|              paid to him every year as wages.~Two months after this,
2657 GeNote|             earliest laughter to Hindu wags. As regards the serious
2658 Magic |              every evening with a full wallet.~He now and then visited,
2659 StNote|        variants in the Bulletin of the Wallon Folk-Lore Society of Liege (
2660 Ivory |               for the man who did this wanton deed."~A royal proclamation
2661 Goeth |              obtained by selling their wares. Now there happened to be
2662 StNote|             Marie de France, Lais, ed. Warncke, p. lxxxiv. And the whole
2663 Raja  |                Not so fast, oh gallant warrior! If you would marry our
2664 Punch |              seven daughters carefully washing the rice and preparing the
2665 Tiger |               I was in the cage - no I wasn't - dear! dear! where are
2666 Ring  |              had heard how his son had wasted all the money that had been
2667 Punch |               Do you not see that girl watching us? Let us drive her away,
2668 Pre   |                This has to some degree weakened the case for India as represented
2669 Demon |               the Bodhisatta meant the weapon of knowledge which he had
2670 Sons  |              of them were. Besides the weariness of old age, the old fellow
2671 Labam |            will give him eighty pounds weight of mustard seed, and out
2672 Ivory |             and received a right noble welcome from the King. The marriage
2673 Ring  |              and saluting the stranger welcomed him to his dominions. The
2674 StNote|            moral of that is - " For no well-bred demon would have been taken
2675 Punch |              advised him to fasten the well-known treasure to one of the bouquets
2676 Pre   |       restricted my selection from the well-named "Ocean of the Streams of
2677 Tiger |                saw a buffalo turning a well-wheel; but he fared no better
2678 Tiger |              gold ball in my rags, and wend my way homewards." Thus
2679 StNote|            third is that current among Western Europeans, which has spread
2680 Tiger |                in water, and bring the wet bits to our benefactor.
2681 StNote|                duck, in the belly of a wether, under a flagstone on the
2682 Fish  |                they would fall, and be wetted from head to foot. This
2683 Rupees|              dog knew something of the whereabouts of the things, and advised
2684 Labam |             four different directions. Whichever of you gets to my first
2685 Ivory |            thinking that it was only a whim of his friend's, he said
2686 Tiger |               feed their cattle? Don't whimper - be a man!"~Then the Brahman,
2687 Tiger |                my head is beginning to whirl again! Please don't be angry,
2688 Raja  |                immediately there was a whirring noise in the air, and a
2689 Queens|                lovely and charming, so white-skinned and golden-haired, that
2690 GeNote|                incidents at the end of Wide-awake Stories (pp. 386 - 436),
2691 StNote|              story is to be found very widely spread from India (Wideawake
2692 GeNote|          contains the germ idea of the widespread story represented in Great
2693 Punch |                must be dead, and their widows cannot be interrupted by
2694 Raja  |               King, the rest~But timid wild-fowl. Grant us. our request, - ~
2695 GeNote|                taken up the work which Wilhelm Grimm dropped in 1859, and
2696 Punch |               mourned, and say you are willing to marry him. Then endeavour
2697 Money |               Not at all!" replied the wily money-lender; "you will
2698 Ivory |                when he had reached the window-hole. "Below there is a ditch
2699 Ivory |                that was perched on the window-sill of that room, and had not
2700 Punch |                off the parrot's second wing, and the Magician's left
2701 Raja  |                 seeing Raja Rasalu was winning, called to his rat, but
2702 Fish  |               paijamas."~"I admire his wisdom," replied the girl. "I have
2703 StNote|          step-daughters of the envious witch who causes their eyes to
2704 Lion  |               good deed.~Better softly withdraw from him,~Neither envying
2705 Money |                that the farmer's crops withered for want of rain. Then he
2706 Haris |               she said to the supposed wizard:~"Brahman, here I am, that
2707 Laili |                your eyes have grown so wonderfully beautiful that I fainted
2708 Boy   |               the prince's beauty, and wondering who he was.~One day the
2709 StNote|             were saved from a pit by a woodman, Vitalis promising him half
2710 Lamb  |               brother's skin, with the wool inside, and Lambikin curled
2711 Goeth |             even the very clothes they wore, and gave to each only a
2712 Pre   |               any number of additional workers and collections. Even so
2713 Punch |                whilst her sisters were working in the room below, there
2714 GeNote|                the identity of the two works had been clearly explained.
2715 Fish  |              of inhospitable people as worse than the dead. The city,
2716 Tiger |             elder brother was a devout worshipper of Ganesa. That was a Friday,
2717 Raja  |             charm me - ~I go to seek a worthier prize than they!"~Then he
2718 GeNote|               contain a single example worthy the name, nor does the Bidpai
2719 Raja  |               For fear of my valour, I wot,~His armour will clatter.~
2720 Tiger |            powers of healing poisonous wounds and by incantations.' Some
2721 StNote|           among folk-tales Grimm, 105; Woycicki, Poln. Mähr. 105; Gering,
2722 Labam |              took her handkerchief and wrapped some sweetmeats in it, and
2723 StNote|               is again surrounded by a wrapper. This Chinese ball arrangement
2724 Raja  |        softened his heart, so that his wrath died down, and a great loneliness
2725 StNote|               172); in South Slavonia (Wratislaw, p. 225); in Rome (Miss
2726 StNote|             from the Middle Ages by T. Wright in Latin Stories (Percy
2727 Raja  |           armour, with a parrot on his wrist and a gallant steed beside
2728 Laili |              to teach them to read and write. ~One day, when they were
2729 StNote|          Eclipse Demon was, the Jataka writer was probably aided by recollections
2730 StNote|              shows how effectively the writers of the Jatakas could represent
2731 GeNote|              they have been reduced to writing in the native literature. [
2732 Raja  |             died.~Then Rasalu was very wroth, and said bitterly, "Go
2733 Punch |              the boy, and with that he wrung the bird's neck and threw
2734 StNote|             make a very good parallel.~XIX. RAJA RASALU.~Source. -
2735 StNote|               Matted Hair," No. xxv.).~XVIII. PRIDE GOETH BEFORE A FALL.~
2736 StNote|              ordinary Aesopic version.~XXI. THE FARMER AND THE MONEY-LENDER.~
2737 StNote|                 v. "Mental Disguise").~XXIII. THE PRINCE AND THE FAKIR.~
2738 StNote|            Analysis, I. ii. a, p. 394.~XXIV. WHY THE FISH LAUGHED.~Source. -
2739 StNote|               of origin and diffusion.~XXIX. THE PIGEON AND THE CROW.~
2740 StNote|            which 1000 are beast-tales.~XXVI. THE IVORY PALACE.~Source. -
2741 StNote|               a page from Mr. Kipling.~XXVII. SUN, MOON, AND WIND.~Source. -
2742 StNote|              all instructors of youth.~XXVIII. HOW WICKED SONS WERE DUPED.~
2743 Ivory |               the ground within half a yard of her head. Supposing that
2744 Tiger |                 and spinning as long a yarn as possible.~"Oh, my poor
2745 Laili |           called the Rohu fish. It was yawning just as she got up to it,
2746 Raja  |           answered through her tears:~"Yea! mother am I, though I weep,~
2747 StNote|            those that liue a hundredth yeares and neuer mue their feathers)."
2748 Ring  |                 The woman for whom you yearn will appear at your summons.
2749 Ivory |              the saucepan turned quite yellow. He was astonished, and
2750 Money |               the farmer was forced to yield, and from that time, no
2751 Tiger |        oil-cake, but now I am dry they yoke me here, and give me refuse
2752 GeNote|             Lucanor (Eng. trans. by W. York): this contains the fable
2753       | yourselves
2754 Tiger |                Nagaraja glided away in zigzag movements, and was out of
2755 StNote|             the Programm of H. Patzig, Zur Geschichte der Herzmare (