Vikram and the Vampire: Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance

by Sir Richard Francis Burton

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Contents

1. Preface
2. Preface to the First (1870) Edition
3. Introduction
4. The Vampire’s First Story — In which a man deceives a woman
5. The Vampire’s Second Story — Of the Relative Villany of Men and Women
6. The Vampire’s Third Story — Of a High-minded Family
7. The Vampire’s Fourth Story — Of A Woman Who Told The Truth
8. The Vampire’s Fifth Story — Of the Thief Who Laughed and Wept
9. The Vampire’s Sixth Story — In Which Three Men Dispute about a Woman
10. The Vampire’s Seventh Story — Showing the Exceeding Folly of Many Wise Fools
11. The Vampire’s Eighth Story — Of the Use and Misuse of Magic Pills
12. The Vampire’s Ninth Story — Showing That a Man’s Wife Belongs Not to His Body but to His Head
13. The Vampire’s Tenth Story — Of the Marvellous Delicacy of Three Queens
14. The Vampire’s Eleventh Story — Which Puzzles Raja Vikram

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