Soils and national characteristics differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents the world over. So proved the leading British folklorist Joseph Jacobs (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 Brahman, and the Jackal, - -The Talkative Tortoise, - -The Ass in the Lion's Skin, - -Why the Fish Laughed, - -Sun, Moon, and Wind Go Out to Dinner, - -The Prince and the Fakir, - and all the...