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Folk-lore and Legends: Oriental

Folk-lore and Legends: Oriental

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Number of Chapters: 25

Length: 04 hours and 51 minutes

Language: English

The East is rich in Folklore, and the lorist is not troubled to discover material, but to select only that which it is best worth his while to preserve. The conditions under which the people live are most favourable to the preservation of the ancient legends, and the cultivation of the powers of narration fits the Oriental to present his stories in a more polished style than is usual in the Western countries. The reader of these tales will observe many points of similarity between them and the popular fictions of the West—similarity of thought and incident—and nothing, perhaps, speaks more eloquently the universal brotherhood of man than this oneness of folk-fiction. At the same time, the Tales of the East are unique, lighted up as they are by a gorgeous extravagance of imagination which never fails to attract and delight. - Summary by Charles John Tibbits

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Prefactory Note (Larry Wilson)
The Cobbler Astrologer (Farnood)
The Legend of the Terrestrial Paradise of Sheddád, the Son of 'A'd (Farnood)
The Tomb of Noosheerwân (Annyiee Hill)
Ameen and the Ghool (Annyiee Hill)
The Relations of Ssidi Kur (Farnood)
The Adventures of the Rich Youth (MaryAnn)
The Adventures of the Beggar’s Son (Farnood)
The Adventures of Massang (DrPGould)
The Magician with the Swine’s Head (Marta A)
The History of Sunshine and his Brother (Marta A)
The Wonderful Man who overcame the Chan (Marta A)
The Bird-Man (cjedkins)
The Painter and the Wood-carver (Marta A)
The Stealing of the Heart (Pinchcliff)
The Man and his Wife (Annyiee Hill)
Of the Maiden Ssuwarandari (Farnood)
The Two Cats (Annyiee Hill)
Legend of Dhurrumnath (Annyiee Hill)
The Traveller’s Adventure (Farnood)
The Seven Stages of Roostem (Farnood)
The Man who never Laughed (Larry Wilson)
The Fox and the Wolf (Annyiee Hill)
The Shepherd and the Jogie (Larry Wilson)
The Perfidious Vizier (Larry Wilson)
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