Kingscote-Sastri. Tales of the Sun

Today's free book is Tales of the Sun, or Folklore of Southern India by Georgiana Kingscote and Natesa Sastri. For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image. The author of this book is sometimes listed as: Mrs. Howard Kingscote, and she also published under the pseudonym Lucas Cleeve and lived in Bangalore. There is also an earlier edition of the book credited to Sastri only: Folklore in Southern India by Pandit S.M. Natesa Sastri.

This book is available at Project Gutenberg, and also at Internet Archive, Hathi Trust, Google Books, and as a free Kindle ebook.

Table of Contents:

1. The Three Deaf Men: text
2. Why Brahmans cannot eat in the Dark: text
3. The Soothsayer's Son: text
4. Ranavirasing: text
5. Charity alone Conquers: text
6. Mr. Won't Give and Mr. Won't Leave: text
7. Mr. Mighty-of-his-Mouth: text
8. The Mother-in-Law Became an Ass: text
9. The Story of Appayya: text
10. The Brahmin Girl that Married a Tiger: text
11. The Good Husband and the Bad Wife: text
12. The Good Wife and the Bad Husband: text
13. The Lost Camel: text
14. The Three Calamities: text
15. The Honest but Rash Hunter: text
16. The Brahman's Wife and the Mungoose: text
17. The Faithless Wife and the Ungrateful Blind Man: text
18. The Wonderful Mango Fruit: text
19. The Poisoned Food: text
20. Eating up the Protector: text
21. The Monkey with the Tom-Tom: text
22. Pride Goeth Before a Fall: text
23. Good will grow out of Good: text
24. Light makes Prosperity: text
25. Chandralekha and the Eight Robbers: text
26. The Conquest of Fate: text
27. The Brahman Priest who became an Amildar: text
28. The Gardener's Cunning Wife: text
29. Keep it for the Beggar: text
30. Good Luck to the Lucky One: text
31. Retaliation: text
32. The Beggar and the Five Muffins: text
33. The Brahmarakshas and the Hair: text