Title: Fables & folk-tales from an eastern forest /
Authors: Skeat, Walter William,; Townsend, F.H.,
Date: 1901
Publisher: University press,
Physical description: xiv, 92 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. (1 photo.) ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: G
Contents: Father Lime-stick and the flower-pecker -- The King of the Tigers is sick -- The mouse-deer's shipwreck -- Who killed the otter's babies? : a 'clock' story -- A vegetarian dispute -- The friendship of Tūpai the Squirrel and Rūan the Creeping fish -- The pelican's punishment -- The tiger gets his deserts [sic] -- The tiger's mistake -- The tune that makes the tiger drowsy -- The "tigers' fold" -- The tiger and the shadow -- Wit wins the day -- The king-crow and the water-snail -- Father 'Follow-my-nose' and the four priests -- The elephant-princess and the prince -- The elephant has a bet with the tiger -- Princess Sādong of the caves -- The saint that was shot out of his own cannon -- The saints whose grave-stones moved -- Nakhōda Rágam who was pricked to death by his wife's needle -- The legend of Pătāni -- A malayan deluge -- King Solomon and the birds -- The outwitting of the Gĕdémbai -- The Silver Prince and Princess Lemon-grass.
Notes: Large paper. Includes index. Covers showing light damage; e.p. slightly acidic; some papers chipped.
Subject headings (LCSH): Fables, Malay.; Fables, Malayan.; Folk literature, Malay.; Folklore--Malay Peninsula.; Folklore--Malaysia.; Malays (Asian people)--Folklore