124 THE INDIAN ORIGIN OF MALAY FOLK-TALES. 



ing up pretends to disbelieve the story of the release, gets 

 Crocodile to show his original position and shouts to the 

 Buffaloes to drop the log on him again. (J. R. A. 8., 

 8. B. Ko. 45, 1905 and of. Skeat's "Fables and Folk- 

 Tales from an Eastern Forest" p. 20). 



I have already referred to two Indian, a Tibetan 

 (O'Connor's " Folk-Tales from Tibet", p. 12) and a Mon 

 version of this tale {J. R. A. 8., 8. B. No. 76, pp. 122-3). 

 The closest parallel is to be found in the Panchatantra 

 (Dubois) and other Indian versions are Frere's "Old 

 Deccan Davs", p. 198 foil., Steel and Temple's -'Wide- 

 Awake Stories", p. 116, "Tales of the Punjab*', p. 107, 

 Stokes' "Indian Fairy Tales'", p. 16, Parker (op. cit., 

 vol. Ill, p. 446 and 447). Hottentot and Soudanese 

 versions also occur: — vide Clouston op. cit., vol. I, pp. 

 262-265. 



(2) Mousedeer is caught by a crocodile but escape by saying 

 it is not his leg but a withered branch which has been 

 nipped. 



In Frere's " Old Deccan Days", p 310 and Gordon's 

 "Indian Folk-Tales" (p. 63) and in Bodding's "Folk- 

 lore of the Santal Parganas " (p. 341) a Jackal so escapes 

 from a Crocodile: jn two Sinhalese tales (Parker, op. cit., 

 vol. I, p. 235 and 381) a turtle from a Jackal and a 

 Jackal from a Crocodile ; in Theal's " Kaffir Folk-Lore " 

 (p. 187) a Jackal from a Lion. 



(3) Monse-deer is caught fast in a 'Tar-Baby', pretends to 

 be dead, is thrown aside as a corpse and leaps away. 



"The wonderful Tar-Baby" (J. C. Harris' "Uncle 

 Pemus") is perhaps the most remarkable instance of the 

 insidious spread of buddhistic tales ". (Jacobs' " Indian 

 Fairy Tales" p. 251) Vide A. Werner's paper in "Folk- 

 Lore" X 282, and Mrs. Ehys Davids' "Buddhist Psy- 

 chology" p. 35. In Pancavudha-Jataka 55 the story of 

 a young prince hitting and sticking to an adhesive goblin 

 gives the germ of the tale. In Sam. Nik a monkey's 

 limbs and head are caught in an adhesive snare. 



(4) Mouse-deer is worsted in a race with King-Snail who 

 ranging his subjects along the shore bids each in station 

 pop up ahead of the running Mouse-deer. (Skeat op. cit., 

 p. 33 gives the story of the King-Crow and the Water- 

 Snail and cf. Bezemer's " Yolksdichtuns: aus Indonesien." 

 p. 30). 



In a Laos version of the Panchatantra (Part I Nan- 

 dapakarana) an identical tale is told of how Garuda was 

 worsted by a tortoise: in a Siamese version ("The Orien- 

 talist", vol. I, pp. 87, 88) a Turtle worsts Garuda : in 



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