Jacobs. Indian Fairy Tales.

Today's free book is Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs (1912). You can find out more about this book in the Indian Fairy Tales unit of the Myth-Folklore UnTextbook.

For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image. The book is available at: Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, Sacred Texts, Hathi Trust, Google Books, and LibriVox. There is also a free Kindle ebook.




Table of Contents

01. The Lion and the Crane
02. How the Raja's Son Won the Princess Labam
03. The Lambikin
04. Punchkin
05. The Broken Pot
06. The Magic Fiddle
07. The Cruel Crane Outwitted
08. Loving Laili
09. The Tiger, The Brahman, and the Jackal
10. The Soothsayers Son
11. Harisarman
12. The Charmed Ring
13. The Talkative Tortoise
14. A Lac of Rupees for a Piece of Advice
15. The Gold-Giving Serpent
16. The Son of Seven Queens
17. A Lesson for Kings
18. Pride Goeth Before a Fall
19. Raja Rasalu
20. The Ass in the Lion's Skin
21. The Farmer and the Money-Lender
22. The Boy Who Had a Moon on His Forehead and a Star on His Chin
23. The Prince and the Fakir
24. Why the Fish Laughed
25. The Demon With the Matted Hair
26. The Ivory City and Its Fairy Princess
27. How Sun, Moon, and Wind Went Out to Dinner
28. How the Wicked Sons Were Duped
29. The Pigeon and the Crow