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What happens when you rescue a trapped tiger—and the tiger sees you as its next meal?
Indian Fairy Tales, compiled by Joseph Jacobs, gathers several strands of Indian storytelling. Clever animals share its pages with dangerous magicians, royal families, and ordinary people in extraordinary trouble. Animal fables, magical adventures, and comic tales turn on choices that carry sharp consequences.
In The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal, a man's kindness meets a tiger's hunger, raising questions of gratitude and justice. Punchkin brings a powerful magician and the challenge of opposing him. The Broken Pot follows a poor man's dreams of wealth as one imagined gain leads to another.
What you’ll discover
- Kindness meets real danger Follow a dispute where helping a trapped animal puts a man's own life at risk.
- A magician's dangerous power Enter Punchkin's world, where breaking a powerful magician's hold presents a difficult task.
- Dreams balanced on a pot Watch imagined wealth grow as The Broken Pot turns hopeful thinking toward human foolishness.
- Many paths through wonder Move between short comic tales, animal fables, and longer journeys with princes and princesses.
- Choices with sharp consequences See wit, greed, and kindness take shape as characters bargain, boast, deceive, and risk.
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For readers who love clever animal stories, folk humour, and magical adventures with real danger, where wit, kindness, greed, and foolishness shape memorable choices.
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Contes de fées indiens
by Joseph Jacobs (compilateur) · 1892
A trapped tiger or a dreaming man sets trouble in motion, as a single choice puts wit and kindness to the test.
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Indian Fairy Tales, compiled by Joseph Jacobs, brings together stories from India about clever animals, dangerous magicians, royal families, and ordinary people facing extraordinary trouble. Readers return to it for its lively storytelling and for the way its tales make wit, kindness, greed, and foolishness visible through memorable adventures.
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A promise made to a tiger can become a death sentence. A pot can set a poor man's imagination racing toward wealth. A magician can hold a family in his power while keeping the source of his strength far away. Indian Fairy Tales brings these different kinds of danger and desire into one collection, where a quick mind often matters more than rank or force.
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What is Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs about?
Indian Fairy Tales is a collection of animal fables, magical adventures, and comic folk stories from India. Its characters face hungry predators, cruel relatives, powerful magicians, and their own foolish desires. Cleverness and the consequences of choices link its otherwise separate stories.
Did Joseph Jacobs write these stories?
Joseph Jacobs compiled the collection rather than inventing its tales. He drew on Indian storytelling traditions represented in written sources and collected folk tales. His role was to gather and present these stories to English-speaking readers.
When was Indian Fairy Tales published?
Joseph Jacobs's Indian Fairy Tales was first published in 1892. It belongs to his wider work collecting folk tales, which also includes English Fairy Tales and Celtic Fairy Tales. The stories themselves come from traditions older than the collection.
The author
Joseph Jacobs
1854–1916 · Australian folklorist and historian
Joseph Jacobs was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1854. He moved to England in 1872 and to the United States in 1900. He was a folklorist, historian, and writer. He published English Fairy Tales in 1890 and More English Fairy Tales in 1894. He died in Yonkers, New York, in 1916.
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