Indian fairy tales, collected and tr. by M. Stokes. with notes by Mary Stokes |
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angry answered asked ayah bathe bazar beautiful bél-fruit Bél-Princess Bhoj birds called child clothes cried Cúchulainn daughter dead demon Dinajpur dinner Dunkní fairies Fairy Tales fakír father and mother flowers frog fruit garden gave girl give goat gold golden Goraknáth Gubernatis hair head hero Hírálál horse husband Indrásan J. F. Campbell jackal jewels jungle Katar kill King Burtal king's kotwál's Lailí little prince lived look lovely Mabinogion Maerchen Mahárájá mainá marry morning mouse Múniyá never night palace palanquin Phúlmati Rání Pomegranate Prince Majnún Prince Sabr princess princess played Rájá Harichand Rájá's Rájá's son Rakshas Rání's Sachúlí salaams says sent sepoy servants Shekh Faríd Sonahrí Rání stay story tank tell thought thousand rupees tiger told took tree wazír wicked wives young prince youngest youngest princess
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264 ページ - And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
287 ページ - Rhangyw, and in this dress he was not known by any of the host. And they charged each other, and fought all that day until the evening, and neither of them was able to unhorse the other.
279 ページ - Cuchulainn to protect him so long as his soul abode in him, and the ' hero's light ' out of his forehead remained. Then the Gray of Macha wrought the three red routs all around him. And fifty fell by his teeth and thirty by each of his hooves. This is what he slew of the host. And hence is (the saying) ' Not keener were the victorious courses of the Gray of Macha after Cuchulainn's slaughter.
154 ページ - We do not know where it is," answered his father and mother. "Then I must go and look for it," said the prince. " No, no," they said, " you must not leave us. You are our only son. Stay with us. You will never find the Princess Labam." " I must try and find her," said the prince. " Perhaps God will show me the way. If I live and I find her, I will come back to you ; but perhaps I shall die, and then I shall never see you again. Still I must go. So they had to let him go, though they cried very much...
58 ページ - Sixteen miles away from this place," he said, " is a tree. Round the tree are tigers, and bears, and scorpions, and snakes ; on the top of the tree is a very great fat snake ; on his head is a little cage ; in the cage is a bird ; and my soul is in that bird.
163 ページ - Then the wedding took place. All the Rajas and kings of the countries round were asked to come to it, and there were great rejoicings. After a few days the prince's son said to his wife, " Let us go to my father's country.
287 ページ - ... shut the gate upon him. And then he returned to fight the giant, as before. And the lion roared very loud, for he heard that it went hard with Owain. And he climbed up, till he reached the top of the Earl's Hall; and thence he got to the top of the Castle, and he sprang down from the walls, and went and joined Owain. And the lion gave the giant a stroke with his paw, which tore him from his shoulder to his hip, and his heart was laid bare. And the giant fell down dead.
154 ページ - That is all they would say. The prince grew very sad when they would not tell him anything more ; and he threw his gun away, and went home. When he got home, he would not speak or eat, but lay on his bed for four or five days, and seemed very ill. At last he told his father and mother that he wanted to go and see the Princess Labam. " I must go," he said ; "I must see what she is like. Tell me where her country is." " We do not know where it is," answered his father and mother.
163 ページ - I had his oil crushed out by the ants," he said to himself. " I had his demons killed by the tigers. My bed helped me to beat his kettle-drum. But now what can I do ? How can I cut that thick tree-trunk in two with a wax hatchet ? " At night he went on his bed to see the princess. "Tomorrow," he said to her,
260 ページ - ... its getting into hostile hands. Along with this caution goes the similarly originated fear that the person whose name is spoken may resent such meddling with his personality. For the latter reason the Dayak will not allude by name to the small-pox, but will call it "the chief...