Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Volume 3 (of 3)

The collection presents traditional oral tales gathered from rural Ceylon, arranged by social groups and region. It compiles animal fables, moral anecdotes, trickster episodes, and supernatural stories featuring local spirits and rākshasa-like beings, often in short, self-contained narratives. Many tales hinge on friendship, cunning, greed, and retribution, with recurring motifs and regional variants noted. Narrative glosses and brief explanatory notes accompany translations to preserve dialectal terms and cultural detail, producing a panoramic survey of peasant humour, belief, and social instruction.