A Chapter of Santal folklore

This book provides a sample of Santal folk-tales taken from the oral literature of the people and prepared for the author in written form in (Santali). The present received this first introduction to folk-tales through an old nurse. When the author came to Mohulpahari, he got some more tales from an elderly guru, named Phagu from village of Dhaka, near Mohulpahari, the same man who has furnished the songs printed in the book. Who also dictated to me a much more circumstantial version to the traditions than that found in the book.