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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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- 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