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The rice birds : folktales from Thailand / edited and translated by Christian Velder and Katrin A. Velder.

Title
The rice birds : folktales from Thailand / edited and translated by Christian Velder and Katrin A. Velder.
Publication
Bangkok, Thailand : White Lotus Press, c2003.

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Additional Authors
  • Velder, Christian
  • Velder, Katrin A.
  • Velder, Christian, Dr.
Description
xvi, 379 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
Alternative Title
Folktales from Thailand
Subjects
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Ancient times: How the snubnosed elephant got his trunk ; Rice and corn from on plant ; Why seawater is salty ; The ping and the salween ; Why the goshawk feasts on chicks -- When the animals were the sole inhabitants of the earth: The hornbill and the bear ; Captain owl and his oarsmen ; The white rat ; Why the cicada has no entrails ; How the crocodile lost its tongue -- Tales of the gods: How the bull came to earth ; How the zodiac was created ; Spare animals on sacred days ; The magic gong ; To-Hoey, the screeching bird -- Tales of spirits and demons: The tiger's claw ; The wayward child ; The prince of the elephants ; The request of the village spirit -- When the buddha still walked the earth: The Sunken alms bowl ; Parasol mountain ; How the Ping river got its name -- Merits and fortune -- Misfortune and punishment -- Tales of animals and humans: The king cobra ; The good child ; The tigerman ; A swan with two heads
ISBN
9744800291 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2003530379
OCLC
  • 53138539
  • SCSB-11610389
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library