Captain Sir Richard F. Burton’s

Vikram and The Vampire

Classic Hindu Tales of

Adventure, Magic, and Romance

Edited by his Wife

Isabel Burton

“Les fables, loin de grandir les hommes, la Nature et Dieu, rapetssent tout.”

                                                                                            Lamartine (Milton)                 

“One who had eyes saw it; the blind will not understand it.

A poet, who is a boy, he has perceived it; he who understands it will be

his sire’s sire.” - Rig-Veda (I.164.16).

First published in 1870.

This edition from the 1893 edition published by Tylston and Edwards of London