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Fables and folk-tales : from an eastern forest /
Skeat, Walter
Fables and folk-tales : from an eastern forest / edited and translated by Walter Skeat ; Illustrated by F. H. Townsend. - 1st ed. - New York : Cambridge , 2014. - xiv, 91 p. : ill., map; 23 cm.
Includes index.
1.Father lime-stick and the flower-pecker; 2. The king of the tigers is sick; 3. The mouse-deer's shipwreck; 4. Who killed the otter's babies? (A 'clock' story); 5. A vegetarian dispute; 6. The friendship of Tūpai the squirrel and Rūan the creeping fish; 7. The pelican's punishment; 8. The tiger gets his deserts; 9. The tiger's mistake; 10. The tune that makes the tiger drowsy;
Originally published in 1901, this book contains twenty six folk tales from the Malay peninsula. The text is illustrated with photographs and drawings of Malaysian settings and animals, and the stories are accompanied by explanatory notes at the end of the text to clarify points of local history, religion and language.
9781107432888
European and world literature.
Malayan Folklore.
Fables.
398.2095951 / SKE
Fables and folk-tales : from an eastern forest / edited and translated by Walter Skeat ; Illustrated by F. H. Townsend. - 1st ed. - New York : Cambridge , 2014. - xiv, 91 p. : ill., map; 23 cm.
Includes index.
1.Father lime-stick and the flower-pecker; 2. The king of the tigers is sick; 3. The mouse-deer's shipwreck; 4. Who killed the otter's babies? (A 'clock' story); 5. A vegetarian dispute; 6. The friendship of Tūpai the squirrel and Rūan the creeping fish; 7. The pelican's punishment; 8. The tiger gets his deserts; 9. The tiger's mistake; 10. The tune that makes the tiger drowsy;
Originally published in 1901, this book contains twenty six folk tales from the Malay peninsula. The text is illustrated with photographs and drawings of Malaysian settings and animals, and the stories are accompanied by explanatory notes at the end of the text to clarify points of local history, religion and language.
9781107432888
European and world literature.
Malayan Folklore.
Fables.
398.2095951 / SKE