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The Real Mother (Indian folktale) The Three Princes of Serendip; The Tiger, the Brahmin and the Jackal; The Tortoise and the Birds; Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups; Tulisa, the Wood-Cutter's Daughter; The Turtle Prince (folktale) Tutinama; The Twelve Dancing Princesses
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 ...
During the same period, Helen Bannerman penned the now notorious Indian-themed tale of Little Black Sambo, which represented itself to be an Indian folktale. [citation needed] After independence, disciplines and methods from anthropology began to be used in the creation of more in-depth surveys of Indian folklore. [citation needed]
The Real Mother is an Indian folktale collected by Alice Elizabeth Dracott from Simla, wherein a childless king gives mangoes to his co-wives in order to cure their barrenness, and only the youngest queen bears him children, to the others' jealousy. The co-queens decide to kill the children, which are buried and from their graves flowers and ...
Tulisa, the Wood-Cutter's Daughter is an Indian legend published as an annex to Somadeva Bhaṭṭa's work, related to Cupid and Psyche. [1]The tale belongs to the international cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom or Search for the Lost Husband: Tulisa, a woodcutter's daughter, agrees to marry the owner of a mysterious voice, and her father consents to their marriage and eventually becomes rich.
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.
This was a popular work that played an early role in the development of Literary Hindi and was selected as a Hindustani test-book for military service students in the East India Company. [12] Thus it became the basis of several Hindi editions, and Indian vernacular and English translations; many of these frequently reprinted.
Sammohinee Ghosh of Mid-day, a Mumbai daily, states that "Kushalappa’s writing strikes the reader through its detailed and in-depth research." [3]Shweta Sharan of the Mint, a New Delhi-based publication under HT Media, states, "Keen to retell and document fables and myths from India, Nitin Kushalappa MP has collected 15 fantastic folk tales from South India in his latest book, 'Dakshin ...