29 Indian Fairy Tales: With 53 Illustrations and 29 Free Online Audio Files

Indian Fairy Tales is written by folklorist Joseph Jacobs and was first published in 1892. This e-book features twenty-nine stories taken from popular South Asian oral history. The stories are complemented by the original fifty-three full color and black-and-white illustrations, which follow the storyline.

Some scholars have stated that India is the original home of the fairy tale and that all European fairy tales have been carried across by crusaders, Gipsies, Mongol missionaries, traders, Jews, and travelers. India is on one branch of the legendary Silk and Spice Routes, over which Europeans and Asians have been traveling for thousands of years. Many common fairy stories of Europe are derived from Indian tales. Comic tales and jingles can be traced without much difficulty back to India. Jacobs has selected the best from the Baluchi folk-tales, the Jatakas, the Bidpai, the Tales of the Sun, and the folk-tales of Kashmir.

Tales included:

1. The Lion and the Crane

2. How the Raja's Son won the Princess Labam

3. The Lambikin

4. Punchkin

5. The Broken Pot

6. The Magic Fiddle

7. The Cruel Crane Outwitted

8. Loving Laili

9. The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal

10. The Soothsayers Son

11. Harisarman

12. The Charmed Ring

13. The Talkative Tortoise

14. A Lac of Rupees for a Piece of Advice

15. The Gold-Giving Serpent

16. The Son of Seven Queens

17. A Lesson for Kings

18. Pride Goes Before a Fall

19. Raja Rasalu

20. The Ass in the Lion's Skin

21. The Farmer and the Money-Lender

22. The Boy who had a Moon on his Forehead and a Star on his Chin

23. The Prince and the Fakir

24. Why the Fish Laughed

25. The Demon with the Matted Hair

26. The Ivory City and its Fairy Princess

27. Sun, Moon, and Wind go out to Dinner

28. How the Wicked Sons were Duped

29. The Pigeon and the Crow

This book is unabridged and appears as it was first intended with fifty-three original hand-drawn illustrations.

The audio link will only work on Kobo's iOS and Android apps.

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