Category: India

May 7, 2022

Happy Mothers Day!

Happy Mothers Day Let us celebrate Mother’s Day with our most beloved folk tales about mothers! The Boy whom Seven Mothers Suckled – Folk Tales from Bengal Once on a time there reigned...

January 28, 2022

The Story of a Hiraman (Folk-Tales of Bengal, 1912) by Rev. Lal Behari Day

There was a fowler who had a wife. The fowler’s wife said to her husband one day, “My dear, I’ll tell you the reason why we are always in want. It is because you...

January 28, 2022

The Story of a Brahmadaitya (Folk-Tales of Bengal, 1912) by Rev. Lal Behari Day

Once on a time there lived a poor Brahman who had a wife. As he had no means of livelihood, he used every day to beg from door to door, and thus got some...

October 28, 2020

Folk and fairy tales of a pandemic

… and how to face our fears and grief The year 2020 will go down in history books as a year that was dominated by the pandemic. As of now, there is no end...

October 18, 2020

BARBER HÍM AND THE TIGERS (Indian Fairy Tales, 1880) collected and translated by Maive Stokes

ONCE there lived a barber called Hím, who was very poor indeed. He had a wife and twelve children, five boys and seven girls: now and then he got a few pice. One day...

October 18, 2020

THE STORY OF FOOLISH SACHÚLÍ (Indian Fairy Tales, 1880) collected and translated by Maive Stokes

THERE once lived a poor old widow woman named Hungní, who had a little idiot son called Sachúlí. She used to beg every day. One day when the son had grown up, he said...