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TABULATION OF FOLK TALES.
TABULATION OF FOLK-TALES
Generic name of story.—(Not to be filled up.)
Specific name.—Tit for Tat.
Dramatis personæ.—Jackal, camel, villagers.
Thread of story.—A jackal wanting to cross a river to get his dinner, persuaded a camel to swim across, taking him on his back, telling him of a field of sugar there. The camel consented. On arriving the jackal secured his dinner, and before the camel had eaten anything began
howling, which brought out the villagers, who beat the camel until he was nearly dead. Whilst returning home the camel asked the jackal why he had acted so. Jackal answered it was his custom to sing after dinner. Camel retorted it was his custom to roll after dinner, and so
doing drowned the jackal.Incidental circumstances.
Where published.—In Old Deccan Days, pp. 176-178. 2nd edition. London, 1870. Tale No. 13.
Nature of collection, whether:—
1. Original or translation.
2. If by word of mouth state narrator's name.—Narrated in broken English by Anna Liberata de Souza, ayah in the family of Sir Bartle Frere, when at Bombay. Narrator belonged to the Lingaets, a South Indian tribe.
3. Other particulars.
Special points noted by the Editor of the above.—Cf. Jatakas: "The Monkey that left his Heart on a Tree." Morris's Folk-Tales of India, Folk-Lore Journal, vol. iii. p. 121; also, "How the big Monkey tricked the little one." Ibid. p. 255; and vide Clodd's Myths and Dreams, pp. 97-98, for illustrations of the befooling of one animal by another.
