Day. Folk-Tales of Bengal

Today's free book is Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day, illustrated by Warwick Goble. You can find out more about this book in the Folktales of Bengal unit of the Myth-Folklore UnTextbook.

For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image. The links below are to the Gutenberg edition, and I've also included two animated gifs showing the book's beautiful illustrations from the Internet Archive scan.

The book is available at Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, Hathi Trust, and Google Books.

The illustrations are by Warwick Goble, and I have made a Flickr collection.

1. Life’s Secret

2. Phakir Chand 

3. The Indigent Brahman 

4. The Story of the Rakshasas 

5. The Story of Swet-Basanta 

6. The Evil Eye of Sani 

7. The Boy whom Seven Mothers suckled 

8. The Story of Prince Sobur 

9. The Origin of Opium 

10. Strike but Hear 

11. The Adventures of Two Thieves and of their Sons 

12. The Ghost-Brahman 

13. The Man who wished to be Perfect 

14. A Ghostly Wife 

15. The Story of a Brahmadaitya

16. The Story of a Hiraman 

17. The Origin of Rubies 

18. The Match-making Jackal 

19. The Boy with the Moon on his Forehead 

20. The Ghost who was Afraid of being Bagged 

21. The Field of Bones 

22. The Bald Wife