Indian Fairy Tales
By Joseph Jacobs, John Dickson Batten
Length6h 9m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "From the extreme West of the Indo-European world, we go this year to the extreme East. From the soft rain and green turf of Gaeldom, we seek the garish sun and arid soil of the Hindoo. In the Land of Ire, the belief in fairies, gnomes, ogres and monsters is all but dead; in the Land of Ind it still flourishes in all the vigour of animism. Soils and national characters differ; but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment. The majority of the tales in this volume 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—as Benfey in Germany, M. Cosquin in France, and Mr. Clouston in England—have declared that India is the Home of the Fairy Tale, and that all European fairy tales have been [viii]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 my instructions go, I should be prepared, within certain limits, to hold a brief for India. 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."
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, Fantasy
Length6 hrs 9 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 24, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface
2Full-page Illustrations
3The Lion and the Crane
4How the Raja's Son won the Princess Labam.
5The Lambikin
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6Punchkin
7The Broken Pot
8The Magic Fiddle
9The Cruel Crane Outwitted
10Loving Laili
11The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal
12The Soothsayer's Son
13Harisarman
14The Charmed Ring
15The Talkative Tortoise
16A Lac of Rupees for a Bit of Advice
17The Gold-giving Serpent
18The Son of Seven Queens
19A Lesson for Kings
20Pride goeth before a Fall
21Raja Rasalu.
22The Ass in the Lion's Skin
23The Farmer and the Money-lender
24The Boy who had a Moon on his Forehead and a Star on his Chin
25The Prince and the Fakir
26Why the Fish Laughed.
27The Demon with the Matted Hair
28The Ivory City and its Fairy Princess
29How Sun, Moon, and Wind went out to Dinner
30How the Wicked Sons were Duped.
31The Pigeon and the Crow
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