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Indian Fairy Tales is an exciting and entertaining collection of stories, full of the colour and enchantment of India, written for the amusement of children everywhere. Its universal appeal lies in the striking similarities between Indian tales and those of European myth and legend, characters often having counterparts in Western tradition. Especially selected and retold to offer the best of India, these stories in Indian Fairy Tales speak of snow-capped ...
Soils and national characteristics differ, but fairy tales are the same in plots and the incidents the world over. So proved the leading British folklorist Joseph Jacob (1854-1916) with this now classic volume of 29 traditional tales from India, including some of the oldest recorded tales known. The lion and the crane", "How the Raja’s son won the Princess Labam, "The broken pot", "The tiger", "The Brahmin and the jackal" ...