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Lanna and Lao Folklore

Folk-tales of northern Siam and the Lao country, as collected in English by missionaries and travellers.

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Laos Folk-Lore of Farther India — Katherine Neville FleesonKatherine Neville Fleeson’s 1899 collection of forty-eight folk-tales of the Laos country of the kingdom of Siam, taken down by a missionary from oral tellers and translated into English: jungle tales, animal fables, origin stories, tales of temples and priests, proverb stories and tales of fools and tricksters.