Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Indische Märchen
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You will love this book if you enjoy animal fables, magic rings and clever heroes, or if you like to follow one story from an Indian village fire to an English nursery.
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How do the same fairy tales reach India and Europe? Joseph Jacobs gathers twenty-nine stories and argues that many shared European tales may have Indian roots. You meet a prince who seeks a glowing princess, a lamb who talks his way past hungry beasts, a magician disguised as a holy man, and the future Buddha as a crane, a tree spirit and a prince. Jacobs adds notes on the tales' sources and their connections with stories elsewhere. The first idea is where these stories come from.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1Jacobs argues for Indian roots in shared talesFree
- 2Kindness to animals brings help when it is needed
- 3Quick wits can outsmart the strong
- 4Balna faces a cruel stepmother and a magician
- 5The Buddha speaks through animals, spirits and princes
- 6Fate and trust are tested in three tales
- 7Clever heirs outplay cruel and powerful rulers
- 8Disguise, loyal friends and riddles carry the longer tales
- 9The notes show how a story crosses the world
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Jacobs argues for Indian roots in shared tales
Jacobs makes a bold claim. He argues that the tales European children share come from India, and that these make up more than a third of Europe's fairy tales. He is most sure about the comic tales and the jingles.
His best proof is the Jatakas, the Birth Stories of the Buddha. He calls them the oldest collection of folk tales in the world, gathered more than two thousand years before the brothers Grimm. He also draws on the Fables of Bidpai and on newer collections written down by Miss Frere, Miss Stokes, Major Temple and others from village storytellers. Medieval preachers and Italian storytellers, he says, carried many of these plots into Europe.
For you, that gives every tale two lives. It is a good story, and it is also a clue to how stories travel. Listen for plots you already know, such as grateful animals, magic gifts and a clever youngest child. Then see how they look in their Indian dress.
That’s 1 of 9 key points.
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Questions about Indische Märchen
What are the Jatakas?
The Jatakas are Buddhist birth stories about the earlier lives of the Buddha, in which he appears as an animal, a spirit or a prince. The book includes several, such as The Lion and the Crane and The Talkative Tortoise.
Are these tales really from India, and are they old?
Yes, they come from Indian sources, from the Jatakas of more than two thousand years ago to village tales written down in the nineteenth century. Jacobs says some can be traced back over a thousand years.
Is Indian Fairy Tales easy to read?
Each tale can be read on its own. Plots are clear, with magic gifts, talking animals and clever heroes, and many end with a verse or a plain moral. You can read them in any order.