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CXXXI. The Three Fools CXXXII. The Cure For Laziness CXXXIII. The Brahmin's Powers CXXXIV. Ram's Wife CXXXV. Palo CXXXVI. The Women's Sacrifice CXXXVII. The Thief's Son CXXXVIII. The Divorce CXXXIX. The Father and the Father-in-Law CXL. The Reproof CXLI. Enigmas CXLII. The Too Particular Wife CXLIII. The Paharia Socialists CXLIV. How A Tiger Was Killed CXLV. The Goala's Daughter CXLVI. The Brahmin's Clothes CXLVII. The Winning of the Bride

PART IV
CXLVIII. Marriage With Bongas CXLIX. The Bonga Heaven CL. Lakhan and the Bonga CLI. The House Bonga CLII. The Sarsagun-Maiden CLIII. The Schoolboy and the Bonga CLIV. The Bonga's Cave CLV. The Bonga's Victim CLVI. Baijal and the Bonga CLVII. Ramai and the Bonga CLVIII. The Boundary Bonga CLIX. The Bonga Exorcised

PART V
CLX. The Beginning of Things CLXI. Chando and His Wife CLXII. The Sikhar Rajah CLXIII. The Origin of Tobacco CLXIV. The Transmigration of Souls CLXV. The Next World CLXVI. After Death CLXVII. Hares and Men CLXVIII. A Legend CLXIX. Pregnant Women CLXX. The Influence of the Moon CLXXI. Illegitimate Children CLXXII. The Dead CLXXIII. A Hunting Custom

Part VI
CLXXIV. Witchcraft CLXXV. Of Dains and Ojhas CLXXVI. Initiation Into Witchcraft CLXXVII. Witch Craft CLXXVIII. Witch Stories CLXXIX. Witch Stories CLXXX. Witch Stories CLXXXI. The Two Witches CLXXXII. The Sister-in-Law Who Was a Witch CLXXXIII. Ramjit Bonga CLXXXIV. The Herd Boy and the Witches CLXXXV. The Man-Tiger
Glossary
Appendix
Folklore of the Kolhan

Part I.
In these stories there are many incidents which appear in stories collected in other parts of India, though it is rather surprising that so few of them appear elsewhere in their entirety. We have however, instances of the husk myth, the youngest son who surpasses his brother, the life of the ogre placed in some external object, the jealous stepmother, the selection of a king by an elephant, the queen whose husband is invariably killed on his wedding night, etc. etc.
Few of the old Indian stories found in the Katha Sarit Sagara or the Buddhist Birth stories appear in recognizable form in the present collection.

I. Bajun and Jhore.
Once upon a time there were two brothers named Bajun and Jhore. Bajun was married and one day his wife fell ill of fever. So, as he was going ploughing, Bajun told Jhore to stay at home and cook the dinner and he bade him put into the pot three measures of rice. Jhore stayed at home and filled the pot with water and put it on to boil; then he went to look for rice measures; there was only one in the house and Jhore thought "My brother told me to put in three measures and if I only put in one I shall get into trouble." So he went to a neighbour's house and borrowed two more measures, and put them into the pot and left them to boil. At noon Bajun came back from ploughing and found Jhore stirring the pot and asked him whether the rice was ready. Jhore made no answer, so Bajun took the spoon from him, saying "Let me feel how it is getting on", but when he stirred with the spoon he heard a rattling noise and when he looked into the pot he found no rice but only three wooden measures floating about; then he turned and abused Jhore for his folly, but Jhore said "You yourself told me to put in three measures and I have done so." So Bajun had to set to work and cook the rice himself and got his dinner very late.
Next day Bajun said to Jhore, "You don't know how to cook the dinner; I will stay at home to-day, you go to plough, and take a hatchet with you and if the plough catches in a root or anything, give a cut with the hatchet." So Jhore went ploughing and when the plough caught in anything and stopped, he gave a cut with his hatchet at the legs of the bullocks; they backed and plunged with the pain and then he only chopped at them the more until he lamed them both. At noon Bajun saw the bullocks come limping back and asked what was the matter with them. "O," said Jhore, "that is because I cut at them as you told me." "You idiot," said Bajun, "I meant you to give a cut at the roots in which the plough got caught, not at the legs of the bullocks; how will you live if you do such silly things? You cannot plough, you must stay at home and cook the rice. I will show you this evening how it is done." So after that Jhore stayed at home and cooked. Bajun's wife grew no better, so one day Bajun, before he went to the fields, told Jhore to warm some water in order that his wife might wash