Download or read book Folk tales of Bengal written by Lal Behari Day and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Folk Tales of Bengal written by Lal Behari Day and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folk-Tales of Bengal is a collection of twenty-two short folk tales by Bengali Indian journalist Lal Behari Day, first published in 1883. The stories include: Life’s Secret; Phakir Chand; The Indigent Brahman; The Story of the Rakshasas; The Story of Swet-Basanta; The Evil Eye of Sani; The Boy whom Seven Mothers suckled; The Story of Prince Sobur; The Origin of Opium; Strike but Hear; The Adventures of Two Thieves and of their Sons; The Ghost-Brahman; The Man who wished to be Perfect; A Ghostly Wife; The Story of a Brahmadaitya; The Story of a Hiraman; The Origin of Rubies; The Match-making Jackal; The Boy with the Moon on his Forehead; The Ghost who was Afraid of being Bagged; The Field of Bones; and, The Bald Wife.
Download or read book Folk tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day written by Lal Behari Day and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Folk Tales of Bengal written by Lal Behari Day and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life's Secret Phakir Chand The Indigent Brahman The Story of the Rakshasas The Story of Swet-Basanta9 The Evil Eye of Sani The Boy whom Seven Mothers suckled The Story of Prince Sobur The Origin of Opium Strike but Hear The Adventures of Two Thieves and of their Sons2 The Ghost-Brahman The Man who wished to be Perfect A Ghostly Wife The Story of a Brahmadaitya The Story of a Hiraman The Origin of Rubies The Match-making Jackal The Boy with the Moon on his Forehead The Ghost who was Afraid of being Bagged The Field of Bones The Bald Wife
Download or read book Folk Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day written by Lal Behari Day and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In my Peasant Life in Bengal I make the peasant boy Govinda spend some hours every evening in listening to stories told by an old woman, who was called Sambhu's mother, and who was the best story-teller in the village. On reading that passage, Captain R. C. Temple, of the Bengal Staff Corps, son of the distinguished Indian administrator Sir Richard Temple, wrote to me to say how interesting it would be to get a collection of those unwritten stories which old women in India recite to little children in the evenings, and to ask whether I could not make such a collection. As I was no stranger to the Mährchen of the Brothers Grimm, to the Norse Tales so admirably told by Dasent, to Arnason's Icelandic Stories translated by Powell, to the Highland Stories done into English by Campbell, and to the fairy stories collected by other writers, and as I believed that the collection suggested would be a contribution, however slight, to that daily increasing literature of folk-lore and comparative mythology which, like comparative philosophy, proves that the swarthy and half-naked peasant on the banks of the Ganges is a cousin, albeit of the hundredth remove, to the fair-skinned and well-dressed Englishman on the banks of the Thames, I readily caught up the idea and cast about for materials. But where was an old story-telling woman to be got? I had myself, when a little boy, heard hundreds-it would be no exaggeration to say thousands-of fairy tales from that same old woman
Download or read book Bengal Peasant Life written by Lal Behari Day and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Folk tales of Bengal by the Rev Lal Behari Day written by Lālavihāri De and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Folk tales of Bengal written by Lal Behari Day and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Folk Tales of Bengal written by Lal Behari Day and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folk-Tales of Bengal is a collection of folk tales and fairy tales of Bengal written by Lal Behari Dey.[1] The book was published in 1883. The illustrations by Warwick Goble were added in 1912.[2] All these stories were passed from generation to generation for centuries.
Download or read book Folk Tales of Bengal written by Lal Behari Day and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folk-Tales of Bengal is a collection of folk tales and fairy tales of Bengal written by Lal Behari Dey. The book was published in 1883. The illustrations by Warwick Goble were added in 1912. All these stories were passed from generation to generation for centuries.
Download or read book FOLK TALES OF BENGAL 22 Bengali Children s Stories written by Anon E. Mouse and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herein you will find stories like; Life’s Secret, Phakir Chand, The Indigent Brahman, The Story Of The Rakshasas, The Story Of Prince Sobur, The Origin Of Opium, The Man Who Wished To Be Perfect, The Story Of A Brahmadaitya, The Origin Of Rubies and many more. Originally narrated in Bengali, at the behest of Richard Temple, to whom this book is dedicated, Rev. Behari Day translated them into English for a Western audience. These stories are further brought to life through the 32 colour illustrations by Warrick Goble, adding a welcome dimension to the stories, making it easier for children to imagine the settings for the characters and stories contained herein. Stories have also been purloined from Brahmans, barbers, servants and other sources. We, therefore, have reason to believe that the stories given in this book are a genuine sample of the old, old stories told by old Bengali women from age to age through a hundred generations. Bengali folklore constitutes a considerable portion of Bengali literature. In Bengali society, as with most ancient societies, folk literature became a collective product. It also assumes the traditions, emotions, thoughts and values of the community. Rev. Lal Behari Day was told these 22 Bengali tales by his Gammer Grethel. In turn his Gammer (Grandmother) heard these as a little girl at the knee of her old grandmother, reputed to be a good story-teller. This means these stories have been told and passed down for no less than 5 generations before the author heard them, which takes us back to at least AD1720 - if not earlier. YESTERDAY'S BOOKS FOR TODAY'S CHARITIES 10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities
Download or read book Folk Tales of Bengal written by Lai Behari and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folk-Tales of Bengal is a collection of folk tales and fairy tales of Bengal written by Lal Behari Dey.The book was published in 1883. The illustrations by Warwick Goble were added in 1912. All these stories were passed from generation to generation for centuries. There was a king who had two queens, Duo and Suo.1 Both of them were childless. One day a Faquir (mendicant) came to the palace-gate to ask for alms. The Suo queen went to the door with a handful of rice. The mendicant asked whether she had any children. On being answered in the negative, the holy mendicant refused to take alms, as the hands of a woman unblessed with child are regarded as ceremonially unclean. He offered her a drug for removing her barrenness, and she expressing her willingness to receive it, he gave it to her with the following directions: -"Take this nostrum, swallow it with the juice of the pomegranate flower; if you do this, you will have a son in due time
Download or read book Folk Tales of Bengal written by Lal Behari Day and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folk-Tales of Bengal is a collection of folk tales and fairy tales of Bengal written by Lal Behari Dey. The book was published in 1883. The illustrations by Warwick Goble were added in 1912. All these stories were passed from generation to generation for centuries. This list represents: 1. Life's Secret 2. Phakir Chand 3. The Indigent Brahman 4. The Story of the Rakshasas 5. The Story of Swet-Basanta 6. The Evil Eye of Sani 7. The Boy whom Seven Mothers suckled 8. The Story of Prince Sobur 9. The Origin of Opium 10. Strike but Hear 11. The Adventures of Two Thieves and of their Sons 12. The Ghost-Brahman 13. The Man who wished to be Perfect 14. A Ghostly Wife 15. The Story of a Brahmadaitya 16. The Story of a Hiraman 17. The Origin of Rubies 18. The Match-making Jackal 19. The Boy with the Moon on his Forehead 20. The Ghost who was Afraid of being Bagged 21. The Field of Bones 22. The Bald Wife
Download or read book FOLK TALES OF BENGAL BY LAL BEHARI DAY Classic Edition written by Lal Behari Day and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In my Peasant Life in Bengal I make the peasant boy Govinda spend some hours every evening in listening to stories told by an old woman, who was called Sambhu's mother, and who was the best story-teller in the village. On reading that passage, Captain R. C. Temple, of the Bengal Staff Corps, son of the distinguished Indian administrator Sir Richard Temple, wrote to me to say how interesting it would be to get a collection of those unwritten stories which old women in India recite to little children in the evenings, and to ask whether I could not make such a collection. As I was no stranger to the Mährchen of the Brothers Grimm, to the Norse Tales so admirably told by Dasent, to Arnason's Icelandic Stories translated by Powell, to the Highland Stories done into English by Campbell, and to the fairy stories collected by other writers, and as I believed that the collection suggested would be a contribution, however slight, to that daily increasing literature of folk-lore and comparative mythology which, like comparative philosophy, proves that the swarthy and half-naked peasant on the banks of the Ganges is a cousin, albeit of the hundredth remove, to the fair-skinned and well-dressed Englishman on the banks of the Thames, I readily caught up the idea and cast about for materials. But where was an old story-telling woman to be got? I had myself, when a little boy, heard hundreds-it would be no exaggeration to say thousands-of fairy tales from that same old woman, Sambhu's mother-for she was no fictitious person; she actually lived in the flesh and bore that name; but I had nearly forgotten those stories, at any rate they had all got confused in my head, the tail of one story being joined to the head of another, and the head of a third to the tail of a fourth. How I wished that poor Sambhu's mother had been alive! But she had gone long, long ago, to that bourne from which no traveller returns, and her son Sambhu, too, had followed her thither. After a great deal of search I found my Gammer Grethel-though not half so old as the Frau Viehmännin of Hesse-Cassel-in the person of a Bengali Christian woman, who, when a little girl and living in her heathen home, had heard many stories from her old grandmother. She was a good story-teller, but her stock was not large; and after I had heard ten from her I had to look about for fresh sources. An old Brahman told me two stories; an old barber, three; an old servant of mine told me two; and the rest I heard from another old Brahman. None of my authorities knew English; they all told the stories in Bengali, and I translated them into English when I came home. I heard many more stories than those contained in the following pages; but I rejected a great many, as they appeared to me to contain spurious additions to the original stories which I had heard when a boy. I have reason to believe that the stories given in this book are a genuine sample of the old old stories told by old Bengali women from age to age through a hundred generations.
Download or read book Folk Tales of Bengal written by Lal Behari Day and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-04-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folk-Tales of Bengal is a collection of folk tales and fairy tales of Bengal written by Lal Behari Dey.
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Download or read book Folk Tales of Bengal written by Lal Behari Day and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overview. These stories all come from Bengal, a region now divided between the Indian state of West Bengal and the neighboring nation of Bangladesh. Lal Behari Day collected these stories from Bengali storytellers in the early years of the 20th century as follows: "An old Brahman told me two stories; an old barber, three; an old servant of mine told me two; and the rest I heard from another old Brahman. None of my authorities knew English; they all told the stories in Bengali, and I translated them into English." There is an astrological tale about the power of the planet Sani (Saturn), a famous Indian folktale about a boy with seven mothers, stories about the origin of opium and about the origin of rubies, plus some marvelous tales about ghosts and other supernatural beings, both friendly and frightening. The illustrations, meanwhile, are by Warwick Goble, and they are beautiful!
