Indian Fairy Tales - Jacobs, Joseph
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Although many readers might associate the term ¿fairy tales¿ with the Germanic or Celtic folk tale tradition¿like in the stories collected by the Brothers Grimm¿countries like India have their own rich history of fairy tales. Many of these tales, infused with a local flavor, bear a striking structural and thematic similarity to those with which Western readers are accustomed: moral allegories, talking animals, gambling incidents, and the like. Joseph Jacobs has carefully selected 29 fairy tales from the Jatakas, the Fables of Bidpai, the Tales of the Sun, the Baluchi Folktales, the Folktales…mehr

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Although many readers might associate the term ¿fairy tales¿ with the Germanic or Celtic folk tale tradition¿like in the stories collected by the Brothers Grimm¿countries like India have their own rich history of fairy tales. Many of these tales, infused with a local flavor, bear a striking structural and thematic similarity to those with which Western readers are accustomed: moral allegories, talking animals, gambling incidents, and the like. Joseph Jacobs has carefully selected 29 fairy tales from the Jatakas, the Fables of Bidpai, the Tales of the Sun, the Baluchi Folktales, the Folktales of Kashmir, and other Sanskrit sources. These stories are a humorous and imaginative showcase of Indiäs rich fairy tale tradition. Joseph Jacobs was an Australian folklorist who devoted most of his career to collecting fairy tales from around the world. His collections on English fairy tales have immortalized stories such as ¿Jack and the Beanstalk,¿ ¿Goldilocks and the Three Bears,¿ ¿The Three Little Pigs,¿ ¿Jack the Giant Killer¿ and ¿The History of Tom Thumb.¿
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Jacobs was born in Sydney, New South Wales, on 29 August 1854. He was the sixth surviving son of John Jacobs, a publican who had emigrated from London in around 1837, and his wife Sarah, née Myers. Jacobs was educated at Sydney Grammar School and at the University of Sydney, to which he won a scholarship for classics, mathematics and chemistry. He did not complete his studies in Sydney, but left for Britain at the age of 18.