From Fables & Folk-Tales from an Eastern Forest, Collected and Translated by Walter Skeat, M.A., Illustrated by F. H. Townsend; Cambridge: At the University Press; 1901; pp. 73-86.
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Adam, (called the Prophet), his quarrel with Eve, 38
Ape, the Black Ape and his quarrel with the Tiger, 46-48
Aroids, and wild calladiums (as the food of the water-snails), 34
Arrow-poison, used by Jágong to poison Gādong, 13
Bamboo, the Bamboo Prince, 61; reason why the Rajas of Rāman may not eat Bamboo shoots, 61
Calladiums, v. Aroids
Cannibalism, of Raja Siung, 60
Cat and dog fight, brings about a deluge, 62
Cattle, ceremony at a shrine or recovering lost or strayed cattle, 53
Corpses (of Saints) that stood upright in the water, 55; and outgrew their shrouds, ib.
Crab, kills the Pelican in self-defence, 19
Crayfish, shoulders his lance, 12
Crocodile, devours the Tiger which fell into the river, 23
Deluge, a Malayan version of the Flood, 62
Eagle, one of King Solomon’s body-guard, 64; is missing, ib.; is pardoned by King Solomon, 66
Elephant, loses his wager with the Tiger, 41-48; tries to shake down the monkey, ib.; his despair at having to pay forfeit, 43; has his life saved by the Mouse-deer, 45-47
Elias (the Prophet) refers a vegetarian dispute to the court of King Solomon, 14
Fish, the Creeping Fish (Rūan), his friendship with the Squirrel, 16; assists the Squirrel in a difficulty, 16; is assisted by the Squirrel in turn, 17; is deceived by the Pelican, 18
Flower-pecker, Father Lime-stick and the Flower-pecker, 1
Foam-Prince, as a suitor of Princess Sādong, 50-51
Follow-my-nose — Old Father Follow-my-nose and the Four Priests, 36
Gĕdémbai, or K’lembai, a race of troublesome spirits who can turn people and things into stone, 67; their size and habits, 68; methods employed by the Malays to outwit them, 68-69; commit great havoc when fleeing to the Foot of the Sky, 69-70; turn the Silver Prince and his Princess into mountains, 72
Grave-stones of Father Lanky and his pupil, 55; their miraculous movements, ib.; divination by measuring the space between them, 56
Heron (the Stump-tailed) sails to Java with the Mouse-deer, 5; the Blue Heron’s plea for the Eagle is commended by King Solomon, 66
Jĕrai, as name of a tree, 36; as name of a mountain, 72
King-crab, trails his three-edged pike, 12
King-crow and the Water-snail, 33
King Solomon, tries the Mouse-deer for murder of the Otter’s babies, 10; acquits the Mouse-deer, 12; decides a vegetarian dispute, 13-15; his dealings with the Birds, 64-66; marries the daughter of the King of the Genii, 66
Lanky, story of Father Lanky and Sah Nyāya, 54
Lime-stick, story of Father Lime-stick and the Flower-pecker, 1
Lizard, the Great (or Monitor) Lizard, wears his sword, 11
Maize-plant (Jágong), story of, 13-15
Man, his dispute with the Tiger, 20-21; sleeps in the jungle together with his little boy and is discovered by a Tiger, 22; their narrow escape, 23
Māta Lémbu, v. Ox-eye
Mouse-deer, refuses to appear when summoned by the king of the Tigers, 3; his cure for the king of the Tigers, 4; sails to Java with the Heron, 5; is shipwrecked, 6; outwits the Shark, 7; outwits the Tiger, 8; inadvertently slays the Otter’s babies, 9; is acquitted by King Solomon of wilfully murdering the Otter’s babies, 12; is appealed to by the Man in his dispute with the Tiger, 21; his settlement of the dispute, ib.; sets the Wild Bulls at variance, 30; saves the Elephant’s life when it was forfeit to the Tiger, 44-47
Nakhōda Rágam, v. Rágam
Opium-eater, buries the four yellow-robed Priests, 37
Otter, its children inadvertently slain by the Mouse-deer, 9
Ox-eye tree, stood nigh to watch the battle and was grazed by bullets, 14
Patāni, the Raja of Patāni and Che Long, the Saint that was shot out of his own cannon, 52; cannon called the Luck of Patāni, conveyed to Bangkok, 53; the legend of Patāni, 59
Pelican, the, deceives and devours the fish, 18; is slain himself by the Crab, 19
Pĕrachak Shrub, that stood upon tiptoe, 14
P’lando’, v. Mouse-deer
Priests, the four Priests of the Yellow Robe, 36
Princess Sādong, the Princess of the Lime-stone caves, 49; how she refused her suitors, 50-51
Rágam, story of ship-master (Nakhōda) Rágam, who was pricked to death by his wife’s needle, 57
Raja Siung, the Tusky Prince, 59
Rīseh, boughs of the Rīseh and Túnggal dūri (gathered by the Tiger at the Mouse-deer’s orders), 31
Road, is appealed to by the Man in his dispute with the Tiger, 20; the Road’s reply, ib.
Sedge, how, being alarmed, it ran to a place afar off and plunged into the river, 14
Shadow, the Tiger and the shadow, 28
Shark, threatens to devour the shipwrecked Mouse-deer, 6; is outwitted by the Mouse-deer, 6-7
91She-oak tree, affords a refuge to the Mouse-deer, 8
Shrines, that of Che Long, 53; that of Father Lanky (To’ Panjang), on Patāni Point, 55
Solomon, King, v. King Solomon
Squirrel, proverbial friendship of the Squirrel and the Fish, 16; is assisted by the Fish when in difficulty, 17; assists the Fish in turn, 17
Thrush, his plea for the Eagle, 64; is commanded by King Solomon, 66
Tiger, the Great King of the Tigers, 3; the Crown-prince of the Tigers, ib.; the Tiger threatens to devour the Mouse-deer, 7; is outwitted by the Mouse-deer, 8; has a dispute with the Man, 20-21; is again outwitted by the Mouse-deer, 21; his stupid mistake, 22; is devoured by the Crocodile, 23; the Tune that made the Tiger drowsy, 25; the Tigers’ Fold, 26; Tigers that turn themselves into men, ib.; the Tigers’ town, ib. (note); the Tiger-chief, 27; is outwitted by the Mouse-deer, 29; and drowned through his own mistake, ib.; is made to do the Mouse-deer’s cooking, 31; and again outwitted by the Mouse-deer, 32; wins his wager with the Elephant by frightening down the Monkey, 42; is outwitted by the Mouse-deer, who prevents him from devouring the Elephant, 44-47; the “Tiger’s Leap” (name of a place on the Tĕmbĕling river in Pahang), 67
Tortoise, dons the coat of mail, 12
Tree, is appealed to by the Man in his dispute with the Tiger, 20; the Tree’s reply, 21
Tune that made the Tiger drowsy, 24
Túnggal dūri, v. Riseh
Vegetarian, a vegetarian dispute, 13
Water-snail and the King-crow, 33
White Blood, as mark of purity of descent, 50
Wilang-stem, used as a spear by Jágong, 14
Wild Bull, the Wild Bulls and the Mouse-deer, 30
Woodpecker, sounds the war-gong, 9; his plea for the Eagle, 64; excavates a hollow in a tree to receive the daughter of the King of the Genii., 65