Shan Folk Lore Stories from the Hill and Water Country: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Shan Folk Lore Stories from the Hill and Water Country, credited to William Charles Griggs, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Shan Folk Lore Stories from the Hill and Water Country by William Charles Griggs. Read by LibriVox Volunteers The following stories have been taken from the great[v] 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 modes of thought and ways of looking at and measuring things, than a treatise thrice as long and representing infinitely more literary merit than will be found in these little tales; and at the same time I hope they will be found to the average reader, at least, more interesting. -- from the author's introduction - Summary by Larry Wilson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Shan Folk Lore Stories from the Hill and Water Country
• Author credits: William Charles Griggs
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 10
• Listed recording duration: 2:53:36

Catalogue topics

• Asia
• folklore
• Burma
• folktale
• shan

Track guide

1. 00 - Dedication and Introduction — 3:23
2. 01 - A Laung Khit — 17:43
3. 02 - How Boh Han Me Got his Title — 25:36
4. 03 - The Two Chinamen — 21:30
5. 04 - The Story of the Princess Nang Kam Ung — 21:16
6. 05 - How the Hare Deceived the Tiger — 15:22
7. 06 - The Story of the Tortoise — 16:17
8. 07 - The Sparrow's Wonderful Brood — 10:27
9. 08 - How the World was Created — 12:56
10. 09 - How the King of Pagan Caught the Thief — 29:05

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