Shan Folk Lore Stories from the Hill and Water Country

SHAN FOLK LORE STORIES FROM THE HILL AND WATER COUNTRY BY WILLIAM C. GRIGGS, M. D. TO MY FRIEND J. N. Cushing, D. D., F. R. A. S. _Principal of the American Baptist College, Rangoon, and Senior Shan Missionary, the greatest authority upon Shan literature, and the translator of the Bible into that language, this little book is dedicated by_ THE AUTHOR INTRODUCTION The following stories have been taken from the great mass of unwritten lore that is to the black-eyed, brown-skinned boys and girls of the Shan mountain country of Burma what "Jack the Giant Killer" and "Cinderella" are to our own children. The old saw as to the songs and laws of a country may or may not be true. I feel confident, h…

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