Shan Folk Lore Stories from the Hill and Water Country

By William Charles Griggs · Running time 02:53:36 · Culture & Heritage Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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The following stories have been taken from the great mass of unwritten lore that is to the black-eyed, brown-skinned boys and girls of the Shan mountain country of Burma what "Jack the Giant Killer" and "Cinderella" are to our own children. The old saw as to the songs and laws of a country may or may not be true. I feel confident, however, that stories such as these, being as they are purely native, with as little admixture of Western ideas as it was possible to give them in dressing them in their garment of English words, will give a better insight into what the native of Burma really is, his

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