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

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By H. Parker
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The collection presents traditional oral tales gathered from rural Ceylon, arranged by social groups and region. It compiles animal fables, moral anecdotes, trickster episodes, and supernatural stories featuring local spirits and rākshasa-like beings, often in short, self-contained narratives. Many tales hinge on friendship, cunning, greed, and retribution, with recurring motifs and regional variants noted. Narrative glosses and brief explanatory notes accompany translations to preserve dialectal terms and cultural detail, producing a panoramic survey of peasant humour, belief, and social instruction.

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Volumes I and II of this 3-volume set are also available at Project Gutenberg as eBook Nr. 56614 and 57399.

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Title: Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon; Volume III
Author: Henry Parker (1849–) Info
Language: English
Original publication date: 1914
Keywords: Sinhalese Tales

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