Frontispiece.
VIKRAM AND THE VAMPIRE
OR
TALES OF HINDU DEVILRY.
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.