Tales of the Sun; or, Folklore of Southern India

TALES OF THE SUN Or Folklore of Southern India. Collected by MRS. HOWARD KINGSCOTE and PANDIT NATESA SASTRI. London: W. H. Allen & Co. 13 Waterloo Place, and at Calcutta. 1890. PREFACE. In offering these few Indian tales to the public, I cannot refrain from adding a few words at the beginning to express to Pandit Natesa Sastri my gratitude for the great assistance he has given me in collecting them, assistance without which they would never have seen the light in the shape of a complete volume. When I began writing down these tales, my only means of collecting them was through my native servants, who used to get them from the old women in the bazaars; but the fables they brought me were as f…

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