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INDEX.

Adam and Eve, blackened after the Fall, 239

Alligator, 63
King of the Fishes, 66, 71

Angels, 77, 88, 116, 225

Antelopes, 85

Ants, grateful, 155, 161

Apsarases, 262

Ashes, Laili becomes, 77
sugar turned into, 96

"Aunt," used to propitiate, 157, 262

Avatar, 265

Badshah, 237

Bag, magic, 156

Bamboo wand, 86, 98, 268

Barber outwits tigers, 35

Bear, 254
tries to kill cat, 19

Beauty, effects of, 62, 93, 142
radiance of, 1, 240, 241, 242

Bed, 201
magic, 156

Bees, Rakshases keeping their souls in, 261

Bel Princess, 138, 282

Bhagirathi river, 75

Birds, souls in, 58, 59, 61, 261
conversing, 149, 150, 198

Birth-marks, 1, 119, 242, 243, 253, 276

Blindness cured, 77

Blood of little finger, 83, 84, 141, 272

Boar, God in shape of, 68

Boar Trwyth, the, 241

Boat refusing to move, 195, 292

Body, star on, 243
sun on, 243

Bones of daughter sent to mother, 12, 250, 253

Bowl, magic, 156

Branch, cutting, 30

Branding, 131, 134, 281

Bricks turned into gold, 97

Bulbul, 39

Burning alive, 12, 61, 207, 249, 250

Camel, strayed, 29, 63

Card-playing, 218, 219, 234

Cards, 293

Cat, 255
aunt to tiger, 15
cheats jackal, 19
leopard, 19
which could not be killed, 18

Cha[n.][d.]ala, 266

Charcoal, gold and silver turned into, 69, 226

Chests, concealment in, 218

Child, all-devouring, 255

Children eaten, 52, 177

Chin, star on, 119

Clothes-box, magic, 33

Cloud-myth, 257

Cockatoo, Rakshas Rani's soul in, 61

Colour, 93

Comfits, rain of, 29

Cooking-pot, magic, 32

Cotton-tree, 39

Cow swallows child alive, 123

Crow, 75

Cuckoo, 39

Daughter, _see Fo