lad laughs and refuses to tell why, is punished, and then by his cleverness in solving problems gains renown.
254. How a clever princess got the better of some robbers.
255. The Contest of Good and Evil.—[= "the Good Man and the Bad Man," Clouston, vol. i., p. 249 seqq.—Ed.]
256. The Lucky Wood-cutter.—Married to a princess; disappears immediately after; she seeks him, and at length finds.
260. (Human flesh as a remedy.)
Mixed.
6. Legend explaining the cuckoo's note.
10-11. Number-charms.
13. Why the partridge is black, and what means its note.
17. A charm; added to which you blow upon the person to be charmed.
39, 41. Charms.—The latter is worked in the potter's wheel, by turning it the wrong way. 45. To find treasure. A lamp fed with oil from a corpse.
42. When a Raja dies, his subjects shave heads and beards.
46. Sacred tanks: they supply gold and silver vessels for feasters; if one is stolen, no more arise to the surface.
50. Sacred number 27 among the Sikhs.
82. Bengal.—Charm to entice a woman. Includes: dirt off her back, a rag from her raiment, spittle of the man for whom the charm is to work.
84. The next incarnation of Vishnu will be born out of the arm of a virgin Brahmin girl.
87. Prejudice against being photographed, lest it should take away some of their life.
90. Where a certain soldier was once killed; people still lay English food and spirits to appease his ghost.
92. A miraculous healing pool.
105. Bears.—Hindus believe that he can live any time by merely sucking his toe. [The Greeks thought the polyp ate his feelers: (
Greek characters). Hesiod, Op. 522.]
107. The lens of the eye used as unit of measurement by carpenters.
