Folklore of the Santal Parganas, Vol. 2

Length: 3h 30m
Chapters: 40
Language: English
Genre: Myths

This is the 2nd volume of the Librivox collection. The original book is a collection of folklore from the Santal Parganas, a prominent administrative division in the state of Jharkhand, India. To quote Cecil Henry Bompas, "The stories and legends which are here translated have been collected by the Rev. O. Bodding, D.D. of the Scandinavian Mission to the Santals. To be perfectly sure that neither language nor ideas should in any way be influenced by contact with a European mind he arranged for most of them to be written out in Santali....My translation though somewhat condensed is very literal, and the stories have perhaps thereby an added interest as shewing the way in which a very primitiv…