Indian Fairy Tales

This book is a representative collection of the Fairy Tales of India, by Joseph Jacobs. The majority of the tales in this book have been known in the West in some form or other, and the problem arises how to account for their simultaneous existence in farthest West and East. Some have declared that India is the Home of the Fairy Tale, and that all European fairy tales have been brought from thence by Crusaders, by Mongol missionaries, by Gipsies, by Jews, by traders, by travellers. The question is still before the courts, and one can only deal with it as an advocate. So far as the children of Europe have their fairy stories in common, these—and they form more than a third of the whole—are derived from India. In particular, the majority of the Drolls or comic tales and jingles can be traced, without much difficulty, back to the Indian peninsula.

CONTENTS

The Lion and the Crane
How the Raja’s Son won the Princess Labam
The Lambikin
Punchkin
The Broken Pot
The Magic Fiddle
The Cruel Crane Outwitted
Loving Laili
The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal
The Soothsayer’s Son
Harisarman
The Charmed Ring
The Talkative Tortoise
A Lac of Rupees for a Bit of Advice
The Gold-giving Serpent
The Son of Seven Queens
A Lesson for Kings
Pride goeth before a Fall
Raja Rasalu
The Ass in the Lion’s Skin
The Farmer and the Money-lender
The Boy who had a Moon on his Forehead and a Star on his Chin
The Prince and the Fakir
Why the Fish Laughed
The Demon with the Matted Hair
The Ivory City and its Fairy Princess
How Sun, Moon, and Wind went out to Dinner
How the Wicked Sons were Duped
The Pigeon and the Crow
Publishing House
– MultiMedia Publishing

MultiMedia Publishing
– Digital: EPUB (ISBN 978-606-033-494-1), Kindle (ISBN 978-606-033-493-4), PDF (ISBN 978-606-033-495-8)