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FURTHER FOLKTALES by illustrated by PREFACE WHEN A FAIRY tale is traditional, revealing the customes, beliefs, and aspirations of a geographical group of people, it becomes a folkatle, a part of folklore which has become a scientific study under the name of ethnology. Folklore occurs in all societies, even the most highly urbanized. Broadly conceived, it comprises most of the traditionally patterned expressions of human mentality and emotion, that ceaseless projection of reason and fantasy into the outer world, by which man expands and adorns the elemental necessities of physiological and economic existence to create a cultural environment. "Further Folktales From Sabah" presents a panorama of rural and urban folk traditions, reflecting many dimensions of Dusun of Kadazan life. Culled from centuries of oral tradition and various written sources, this collection contains stories of creation, love and marriage, good and evil and supernatural powers. Keningau,
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