Old Deccan Tales is a collection of folk tales from India's rich fairyland where rajas, ranis, rakshas, jackals, magicians, and cobras prevail. Children will enjoy the daring, brave, and wonderful creatures and people that populate the stories as they strive to improve their lives or to save themselves, their friends, and their loved ones from trials most deadly. * * * * First published in 1868, this was the first English-language field-collected set of twenty-four traditional stories from the southern Indian state of Maharashtra. The author, Mary Eliza Isabella Frere (1845-1911), travelled...