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Some current Persian tales collected in the south of Persia from professional story-tellers

Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal • 1 (18) • Published In 1907 • Pages: 375-412

By: Phillott, D. C. (Douglas Craven).

Abstract
Lt. Colonel Phillott has presented five Persian tales in the original Persian and in English translation, selected on the basis of simplicity of language and their many colloquialisms. There is a variety of ethnographic data in the footnotes to the tales.
Subjects
Writing
Literary texts
Verbal arts
Texts in the speaker's language
Texts translated into english
culture
Iran
HRAF PubDate
2000
Region
Middle East
Sub Region
Middle East
Document Type
article
Evaluation
Creator Type
Government Official
Document Rating
5: Excellent Primary Data
Analyst
Beverly Calsoyas ; 1955
Field Date
no date
Coverage Date
1900s
Coverage Place
Iran
Notes
D. C. Phillott
LCSH
Iranians