Folk-Tales of Bengal
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- Catalogue identifier
- kali-fifty-043
- Alternate titles and import identifiers
- KALI-50-043
- Author or attribution
- Lal Behari Day
- Record type
- Book
- Language
- English
- Date / edition
- 1912 illustrated edition; first published 1883
- Source / repository
- gutenberg.org
- Access
- Open access
- Subjects
- 50 Full-Text Sources — November 2026; Historical and literary sources; Folklore
Description and curator notes
Kali is a significant figure in tales including Phakir Chand and The Man Who Wished to Be Perfect. The collection provides evidence of Bengali literary and popular storytelling about the goddess; its tales are not historical reports of events.
Curator source KALI-50-043. Historical and literary sources. Export dated 5 November 2026.
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43 Folk-Tales of Bengal
Lal Behari Day • 1883
Folklore collection • English
Linked 1912 illustrated edition, pictures by Warwick Goble; London: Macmillan
First published 1883; the linked illustrated edition is 1912.
Kali is a significant figure in tales including Phakir Chand and The Man Who Wished to Be Perfect. The collection provides evidence of Bengali literary and popular storytelling about the goddess; its tales are not historical reports of events.
Access: Complete illustrated HTML edition checked through its ending; approximately 432,000 characters.
Full text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/38488/pg38488-images.html
Source access
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Curator-reported free reading access, not a blanket republication licence. Follow the linked host's copyright and reuse conditions. No full source text is reproduced. Curator access note: Complete illustrated HTML edition checked through its ending; approximately 432,000 characters.
Citation
Lal Behari Day. Folk-Tales of Bengal. gutenberg.org. 1912 illustrated edition; first published 1883. Folklore collection • English
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