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The folklore of India encompasses the folklore of the Republic of India and the Indian subcontinent. India is an ethnically and religiously diverse country. Given ...
Fairy tales from India, short stories that belong to the folklore genre. Such stories typically feature magic , enchantments , and mythical or fanciful beings. India portal
Pages in category "Indian folklore" The following 143 pages are in this category, out of 143 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Folklore of India; A.
Ichchhadhari Nag or Naagin is a mythical shape-shifting cobra in Indian folklore. Ailuranthropes (werecats), the weretiger - In India, the weretiger is often a dangerous sorcerer, portrayed as a menace to livestock, who might at any time turn to man-eating. These tales travelled through the rest of India and into Persia through travellers who ...
The Coconut Lady is an Indian folktale collected in Rajasthan. The tale is a local form of tale type ATU 408, " The Love for Three Oranges ", of the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index . As with The Three Oranges , the tale deals with a prince's search for a bride that lives in a fruit (a coconut), who is replaced by a false bride and goes ...
The following is a list of folktales of the state of Chhattisgarh first published by author Theophil H. Twente in 1938: [1] The Frog and the Lizard [2] The Two Who Were Brothers Indeed [3] How the Gond Saved His Field of Gram [4] Bhimsen and Fever [5] The King Who Learned From a Cock [6] The Wicked Mother-In-Law [7] How a Wedding Song Saved ...
The earliest record of the folklore was included in the Panchatantra, which dates the story between 200 BCE and 300 CE. Mary Frere included a version in her 1868 collection of Indian folktales, Old Deccan Days, [1] the first collection of Indian folktales in English. [2] A version was also included in Joseph Jacobs' collection Indian Fairy ...
The tale is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as tale type ATU 408, "The Three Oranges". [2] [3] [4] In the Indian variants, the protagonist goes in search of the fairy princess on his sisters-in-law's mocking, finds her and brings her home, but an ugly woman of low social standing kills and replaces her.