Indian fairy tales
Though Indian fairy tales are the earliest in existence, yet they are also from another point of view the youngest. The story of modern India has been well dipped into during the last quarter of a century, though the immense range of the country leaves room for any number of additional workers and collections. Even so far as the materials already collected go, a large number of the commonest incidents in European folk-tales have been found in India. Whether brought there or born there, we have scarcely any criterion for judging; but as some of those still current among the folk in India can be traced back more than a millennium, the presumption is in favour of an Indian origin.
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How the Raja's son won the pincess Labam
The tiger, the Brahman and the jackal
A lac of rupees for a piece of advice
The farmer and the money-lender
The boy who had a moon on his forehead and a sun on his chin
The demon with the matted hair
The Ivory city and it's fairy princess
Sun, Moon and Wind go out to dinner
How the wicked sons were duped
Selected and edited by Joseph Jacobs