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Title: Vikram and the Vampire; or, Tales of Hindu Devilry

Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton

Illustrator: Ernest Henry Griset

Release date: March 17, 2015 [eBook #48511]
Most recently updated: October 24, 2024

Language: English

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TALES OF HINDU DEVILRY.

LONDON: PRINTED BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
AND PARLIAMENT STREET

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During the three hours of return hardly a word passed between the pair.

Frontispiece.

VIKRAM AND THE VAMPIRE
OR
TALES OF HINDU DEVILRY.

ADAPTED BY

RICHARD F. BURTON, F.R.G.S. &c.

‘Les fables, loin de grandir les hommes, la Nature et Dieu, rapetissent tout.’

Lamartine (Milton).

‘One who had eyes saw it; the blind will not understand it.

A poet, who is a boy, he has perceived it; he who understands it will be his sire’s sire.’—Rig-Veda (I. 164, 16).

WITH THIRTY-THREE ILLUSTRATIONS
BY
ERNEST GRISET.

LONDON:
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
1870.

TO MY UNCLE,
ROBERT BAGSHAW, OF DOVERCOURT,
THESE TALES,
THAT WILL REMIND HIM OF A LAND WHICH
HE KNOWS SO WELL,
ARE AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.