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But more closely resembling our story is a version in a Canarese collection, entitled “Katha Manjari”:—A certain king had a magpie that flew one day to heaven with another magpie.

As examples of charms worn by Bēdar men in the Canarese country, the following may be cited:— String tied round right arm with metal box attached to it, to drive away devils.

Foa, in the work above cited, gives another version from Orio Canarese, and also a number of Italian versions of the "Song of the Kid."

The Scriptures are translated into the Canarese language, and may be had everywhere at a very cheap rate indeed.

The Dravidian languages, Gondi, Kurukh and Khond, are of one family with Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Canarese, and their home is the south of India.