Indian fairy tales

India can be called a country where fairy tales were born, because "Jataki", the oldest parables about the earthly reincarnations of the Buddha god, were collected together more than two thousand years ago - long before the Grimm brothers began to write their world -famous and favorite fairy tales. From the mouth to the mouth from generation to generation, the inhabitants of India are passed on carefully stored legends and legends, in which magic is adjacent to worldly wisdom, and wild animals appear in the form of human friends. The five fairy tales proposed to the attention of young readers are a vivid example of ancient folklore and, in its entirety, reflect the mysterious world of the East.
retelling Vadim Glushakov