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Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are often the same in plot and
incidents, if not in style. Most of the 27 tales in this volume of Indian fairy tales are
known in the West in some form or other; how can we account for their simultaneous
existence in both Europe and Asia?
Some have declared that India is the home of the fairy tale, and that all European
fairy tales have been brought from thence by crusaders, Mongol missionaries,
Gypsies, Jews, traders, and travellers. After all, India is on one branch of the fabled
Silk and Spice Routes, over which Europeans and Asians have been travelling for
several millennia. We should be prepared, within certain limits, to hold a brief for
India. The common fairy stories of the children of Europe, which form a greater
part of their stories as a whole, are derived from Indian tales. In particular, the
majority of the Drolls, or comic tales and jingles, can be traced without much
difficulty back to the Indian peninsula.
To assemble this volume, Jacobs has selected the best from the Jatakas,
the Bidpai, the Tales of the Sun, the Baluchi folk-tales, and the folk-tales of
Kashmir. In this volume we find stories about Punchkin, the evil magician, and
the quaint myth: "How Sun, Moon, and Wind went out to Dinner”, the magic
fiddle, the broken pot, the tiger, the Brahman, the Jackal, and more.
In short, Jacobs has made this book a representative collection of all the fairy
tales of India. It is only a further proof that fairy tales are something more
than Celtic or Hindoo—they are human. So curl up with a sliver of the Indian
sub-continent and lose yourself in a culture and lifestyle of the ancient,
Eastern past.
Of the net profit from the sale of this book, 33% will be donated to
organisations and charities that specialise in education scholarships for
the underprivileged in India.
organisations and charities that specialise in education scholarships for
the underprivileged in India.
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