Vikram and the Vampire; or, Tales of Hindu Devilry

TALES OF HINDU DEVILRY.
LONDON: PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET
Frontispiece.
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.