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  2. Category:Indian fairy tales - Wikipedia

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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

  3. Folklore of India - Wikipedia

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    His essay "Where Mirrors Are Windows: Toward an Anthology of Reflections" (1989), and his commentaries in The Interior Landscape: Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology (1967) and Folktales from India, Oral Tales from Twenty Indian Languages (1991) are good examples of his work in Indian folklore studies. [citation needed]

  4. Dakshin: South Indian Myths and Fables Retold - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. The Tiger, the Brahmin and the Jackal - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. The Real Mother (Indian folktale) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. List of folktales of Chhattisgarh - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. The Coconut Lady (Indian folktale) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Category:Indian folklore - Wikipedia

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    T. The Tale of the Four Dervishes; Tana and Riri; Telugu folk literature; Thakurmar Jhuli; The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate; The Three Princes of Serendip