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Tamil Folk Tales

Folk-tales of the Tamil country, as told in English by collectors working with Tamil tellers.

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Tales of the Sun — Mrs. Howard Kingscote and Pandit Natesa SastriTwenty-six folk tales of the Tamil country and South India, collected by Mrs. Howard Kingscote and Paṇḍit Naṭêsá Sástrî and published in London in 1890, several of them told to explain a Tamil proverb or custom, with the frame romance of the Lost Camel and its inset stories, the tales’ footnotes and comparative notes.