Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Volume 3 (of 3)

by H. Parker

Precepts, Buddhist, [10], [11]

Prediction, [48], [51], [193], [258]

Pregnancy longings, [84]–[87], [102], [308]

Prince, abandoned by mother, [195];
abandons wife, [252], [326], [327];
abduction of wife, [130]–[134], [315], [378], [379];
accompanied or assisted by animals, [131]–[133], [296]–[299], [361], [362];
and ascetics, [117];
and farmer, [76], [77];
and foster-brother, [438];
and Heṭṭiyā, [273] ff., [286] ff.;
and lion, [285];
and Minister’s son, [272], [283]–[284], [291];
attends school, [300], [363];
avoids pit-fall, [330], [335];
banished, [97], [98], [127], [139], [220], [265], [285], [325], [392];
becomes ascetic, [119],
cow-herd, [287], [301],
cultivator, [265], [268],
drummer, [93],
flute-player, [98],
gardener, [287],
general, [332],
K., [51], [131], [132], [197], [255], [283], [299], [303], [309], [312], [333], [397],
labourer, [76], [77],
shop-keeper, [271],
slave, [272], [286],
Treasurer, [222];
blind at night, [220];
blinded, [443];
born in chank shell, [153];
brilliance of, [114], [254];
buried, [257], [332];
buys advice, [139]–[140],
animals, [127], [129],
wife, [313];
changes letter, [291];
cheated by wife, [118], [119];
cheats Heṭṭiyā, [273]–[281];
consults magical books, [117];
creates palace and Princess, [130];
cures blindness, [443], [447],
demon illness, [376];
cuts chena, [221];
cuts off leg of ogress, [438];
death sentence, [96], [97], [153], [174], [195], [306], [328], [392], [396];
eats master’s food, [278], [279];
escapes from dangers, [195], [198], [330], [332], [333],
slavery, [283], [291];
elopes with Princess, [195], [198];
falsely charged by step-mother, [95]–[98];
feeds guards of magic tree, [177];
finds Princess in cave, [266], [311];
flies on wax or wooden horse, [193], [198];
frightens thieves, [222], [312];
foundling reared by K., [195];
giant, [373] ff.;
(or man) gives blood to be drunk, [90], [93];
gives master’s goods away, [273], [274];
goes for lotus flower, [297], [298], [307],
turtle-doves, [443],
to trade, [131], [272], [310];
his humble friends, [375];
imprisons wife, [326];
in love with mother, [196], [197];
inside lamp, [304]–[308];
jumps across river, [373];
killed by bear, [53],
by burning his sword, [257], [268],
by villagers, [309],
in well, [154];
kills cattle as deer, [287], [288],
cobra or snakes, [332], [334], [443],
mad crocodile and leopard, [374],
mad elephant, [294],
master, [76],
Prince, [154],
Rākshasas, [434],
robbers and sister, [296], [298],
snakes, [334], [434],
wife through jealousy, [52],
Yakā, [377];
learns women’s deception, [118]–[120];
leaves country, [300];
leaves his own body, [410];
life-index, [254], [257], [265], [268], [376], [378];
life in sword, [256], [266]–[268], [378], [379];
lives with flower mother, [193], [301],
Kinnarās, [307], [308];
marriage to Siṭu girl a disgrace, [325];
marries carpenter’s daughter, [93],
girl found in cave, [103], [266],
Heṭṭi girl, [291],
Kinnarī, [362], [363],
leveret, [187],
low-caste girl, [309],
monkey, [188],
poor girl, [104],
Princess and her two friends, [397], [399],
Princess born from his blood, [117],
Rākshasa’s daughter, [437],
Siṭu girl, [377],
village girl, [113], [309];
meritorious because spared by elephant, [307];
mutilated, [77], [98];
poisoned food given, [134], [256], [315], [330];
poisons wife, [327];
ploughs after egret, [276], [277];
puts horse-dung in master’s clothes, [280], [281], [289], [290];
rears egret, [153];
receives advice from teacher, [329],
magic food, [434],
magic ring, [129], [131], [133],
turtle shell, [301];
recovers kingdom, [252];
refuses to marry before sister, [295];
rescues Princess from robbers, [312],
from snakes, [139],
from Yakā, [266];
revived when dead, [257], [268], [298];
revives dead, [434];
rogueries, [273]–[291];
saves city from destruction, [311],
infant sister, [293], [294];
seeks Princess, [268]–[271],
dead wife, [52];
shoots animals, [96], [117], [118];
slaughters enemies, [379];
slavery through gambling, [272], [286];
sleeps while awaiting Princess, [269], [316];
sold for a thousand masuran, [273];
swallowed by crocodile, [297], [298];
takes oath, [280];
tells story, [52];
ties up cattle, [275], [284];
tasks before marriage, [443];
unable to learn, [300], [328], [329];
visits Princess at night, [194]

Princes, abandon country, [253], [254];
abduct Princesses, [103];
banished, [96], [97], [265];
born from eggs, [154];
cut chena, [187];
death sentence, [97];
falsely charged by step-mother, [95], [97], [98];
game with oranges or pigeons, [95], [97];
go for turtle-doves, [443],
valuables, [103], [104];
hares’ eyes given as theirs, [96];
identified when guards, [92], [382], [383];
killed on wedding night, [331], [332], [334];
kill snake, [404];
life-indexes, [254], [257];
reared by widow, [91];
revive dead Prince, [257], [268]

Princess, and boy-magician, [403]–[405];
and creeper cutter, [316], [317], [319];
and two friends agree to marry teacher, [392] ff.;
and trader, [270], [271], [318];
and Vaeddās, [117]–[119], [269], [270], [317]–[319];
abducted, 91, [130]–[134], [266], [268], [311], [312], [315], [316], [371], [378], [379];
about to marry son, [196];
bait for thief, [46], [47];
becomes Nāgayā when poisoned, [327],
shop-keeper, [270], [271];
born from Prince’s blood, [117];
brilliance, [113], [114];
created, [130];
deceives Prince, [118], [119];
disguised to attract husband, [326];
does household work, [321];
dresses as man, [270], [318], [320],
(or girl) elected K., [320];
elopes with fish-owl, [21],
Prince, [195], [198],
thief, [46];
escapes after marriage, [269],
from prison, [326],
from Vaeddās and others, [270], [317], [318];
falsely charges brother-in-law, [364];
fights Ifrit, [409];
finds husband by giving dāna, feast or pinkama, [92], [93], [270], [271];
finds long floating hair, [132];
frog, [434];
golden bed of, [312];
golden or long hair floats away, [130]–[133], [266];
hears story, [52];
husbands killed on wedding night, [331], [334];
identifies sons as guards, [92];
imprisoned, [315], [326];
keeps husband’s corpse in coffin, [257];
killed by brother, [298],
cobra, [104],
husband [52], [327];
kills husband, [370];
knits scarves, [314], [315];
learns and teaches sciences, [313], [318];
learns dancing, [326];
marries boy-magician, [405], [407], [408],
brave man, [438],
carpenter’s son, [90], [92],
caterpillar-boy, [132],
eight times, [331], [332],
farmer, [443],
Koṭā, [362],
Minister, [311],
Prince, [154], [302], [377], [397], [399],
Princess, [319], [320],
Sokkā, [369],
thief, [46], [47], [323], [399];
needlework of, [320];
ordered to be buried alive, [293];
plots to kill brother, [296]–[298];
poisoned, [327];
polyandry of, [18]–[21];
postpones wedding, [91], [298];
reborn as Nāga, [327];
receives wealth from elephant K. or Nāga K., [103], [104];
recovered by animals, [130]–[134],
by wax figure, [319];
seizes youth in room, [404];
selects husband, [318];
snakes issue from nostrils, [139];
swoons at Prince’s brilliance, [254];
takes oath, [256];
weighed daily, [194], [198],
weekly, [305];
wife of fish-owls, [21];
writes letter, [268], [316], [393], [394]

Princesses, abducted, [103], [108];
buried alive, [293];
daughters of bitch, [102];
live in forest cave, [103], [108];
treatment by cobra or Nāga K., [104],
of mother, [103], [109];
steal K.’s flowers, [360], [361];
stratagem to catch sister’s lover, [195]

Prognostic, [94], [97], [98], [246]

Pronouns avoided, [417]

Punishments:—Beating, [214], [260];
beheading, [127], [260], [352], [391], [392];
burning in lime-kiln, [391];
burying alive, [98], [134];
death, [52], [96], [97], [194], [195], [197], [214], [258], [298], [391], [446];
exile, [97], [98], [127], [197], [265], [285], [325], [346];
fine, [215];
flaying alive, [320];
giving as demon offering, [345];
goring by tusk elephant, [337], [338];
hanging, [46];
impalement, [257], [312], [338], [438], [451];
imprisonment, [216];
killing in trap, [49];
mutilation, [71], [72], [75]–[77], [215], [359], [364], [449];
plucking eyes out, [96], [98];
putting in stocks, [347], [348], [351];
throwing down precipice, [97];
trampling by elephant, [307];
turning K. mad, [132]