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 1 Pre   |      characters differ; but fairy tales are the same in plot and
 2 Pre   |    treatment. The majority of the tales in this volume have been
 3 Pre   |           that all European fairy tales have been brought from thence
 4 Pre   |   majority of the Drolls or comic tales and jingles can be traced,
 5 Pre   |       same source whence the same tales were utilised in the Jatakas,
 6 Pre   |         and shall be surprised if tales that have roused the laughter
 7 Pre   |       Remus."~Though Indian fairy tales are the earliest in existence,
 8 Pre   |           collection of the Fairy Tales of Ind by the kindness of
 9 Pre   |  specimens from her "Indian Fairy Tales." To Major Temple I owe
10 Pre   |       regard to Mrs. Kingscote's "Tales ot the Sun." Mr. M. L. Dames
11 Pre   |          further proof that Fairy tales are something more than
12 GeNote|  Decamerone, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, or even Pickwick, is directly
13 GeNote|   intended to be a Decameron, ten tales of Buddha's previous births,
14 GeNote|     reckoned to include some 2000 tales. Some of these had been
15 GeNote|         Pentateuch, five books of tales connected by a Frame. This
16 GeNote|        which I calculate that the tales have been translated into
17 GeNote|        these may be mentioned THE TALES OF SINDIBAD, known to Europe
18 GeNote|           story (cf. Celtic Fairy Tales), though it also occurs
19 GeNote|        Venice.~Some of the Indian tales reached Europe at the time
20 GeNote|         converted about 1106; his tales were to be used as seasoning
21 GeNote|         oldest collection of such tales in literature, and the greater
22 GeNote|           on the spread of Indian tales to Europe. He wrote in 1859,
23 GeNote|         tale to India. Few of the tales in the Indian literary collections
24 GeNote|    dignified by the name of fairy tales, and it was clear that,
25 GeNote|        for three generations, the tales she afterwards published
26 GeNote|        Stokes in her Indian Fairy Tales (London, Ellis & White,
27 GeNote|          1880), who took down her tales from two ayahs and a Khitmatgar,
28 GeNote|        issued separately. Sets of tales from Southern India, collected
29 GeNote|        Kingscote under the title, Tales of the Sun (W. H. Allen,
30 GeNote|        with Mr. Campbell's Santal Tales (1892); Ramaswami Raju's
31 GeNote|           Thornhill, Indian Fairy Tales (London, 1889); and E. J.
32 GeNote|        1889); and E. J. Robinson, Tales of S. India (1885), together
33 GeNote|           has a number of Baluchi tales which I have been privileged
34 GeNote|    annotations to the eighty-tour tales which he has collected in
35 GeNote|           various forms which the tales take in other countries
36 GeNote|           by Europeans. Borrowing tales is a mutual process, and
37 GeNote|          incidents in his Popular Tales and Fictions (Edinburgh,
38 GeNote|    literature. Some of Somadeva's tales, however, approach the nature
39 GeNote|      approach the nature of fairy tales, but there are several Celtic
40 GeNote|          there are several Celtic tales which can be traced to an
41 GeNote|         are equally near to fairy tales. Yet it is dangerous to
42 GeNote|         the folk. To take our own tales here in England, there is
43 GeNote|          of the formulae of fairy tales have been found of recent
44 GeNote|       Binnorie (see English Fairy Tales, No. ix.). Similarly, Mr.
45 GeNote|         it) in Asbjornsen's Norse Tales and in Miss Frere's Old
46 GeNote|      since Miss Frere derived her tales from a Christian ayah whose
47 GeNote|    practical certainty; the fairy tales that are common to the Indo-European
48 GeNote|      source, for each country has tales peculiar to itself. The
49 GeNote|           as to the source of the tales that are common to all European
50 GeNote|           invent plots. The Hindu tales have ousted the native European,
51 GeNote|          the same way, Perrault's tales have ousted the older English
52 GeNote|        can get true English fairy tales because Red Riding Hood,
53 GeNote|           a common store of fairy tales, it owes this to India.~
54 GeNote|         It includes all the beast tales and most of the drolls,
55 GeNote|      about the more serious fairy tales, though it is increasing
56 GeNote|           Indian and the European tales, with the object of showing
57 GeNote|    already given in English Fairy Tales or Celtic Fairy Tales.~
58 GeNote|       Fairy Tales or Celtic Fairy Tales.~
59 StNote|         Miss Stokes, Indian Fairy Tales, No. xxii. pp. 153 - 63,
60 StNote|           Birds " in Celtic Fairy Tales), though the exact forms
61 StNote|          Little Pigs" (Eng. Fairy Tales, No. xiv.). In my notes
62 StNote|        examination of the sets of tales containing these incidents
63 StNote|     indeed the majority, of these tales cannot be independent of
64 StNote|          No. 36, ap. Dasent, Pop. Tales, p. 55, "The Giant who had
65 StNote|          Hebrides (Campbell, Pop. Tales, p. 10, cf. Celtic Fairy
66 StNote|           p. 10, cf. Celtic Fairy Tales, No. xvii., "Sea Maiden ").
67 StNote|           also Mr. Clouston, Pop. Tales, ii. 432 seq. I have translated
68 StNote|          literary transmission of tales from Orient to Occident.
69 StNote|       influence on two of Grimm's tales, Nos. 164, 168.~VI. THE
70 StNote|          A. Campbell, Santal Folk Tales, 1892, pp. 52 - 6, with
71 StNote|           of Liege (cf Eng. Fairy Tales, No. ix.). There is a singing
72 StNote|          the illustrations of the tales as well as the tales themselves,
73 StNote|          the tales as well as the tales themselves, were translated,
74 StNote|         Miss Stokes, Indian Fairy Tales, pp. 73 - 84. Majnun and
75 StNote|          the bottle) and European tales is also a secondary derivate.~
76 StNote|         Source. - Mrs. Kingscote, Tales of the Sun (p. 11 seq.),
77 StNote|            to England (Eng. Fairy Tales, No. xvii., "Jack and his
78 StNote|      Parallels - See Celtic Fairy Tales, No. xxii., "Tale of Ivan,"
79 StNote|         Clouston points out (Pop. Tales, ii. 3:9) that it occurs
80 StNote|        FALL.~Source. - Kingscote, Tales of the Sun. I have changed
81 StNote|         Miss Stokes' Indian Fairy Tales, No. 20, pp. 119 - 137.~
82 StNote|        heroines in European fairy tales, with stars on their foreheads,
83 StNote|         Indian and European fairy tales: see Stokes, l.c., p. 231,
84 StNote| unpublished collection of Baluchi tales.~Remarks.- Unholy fakirs
85 StNote|          s Duchess, ended all his tales with: "And the moral of
86 StNote|        extensive travels of other tales. I have sufficient confidence
87 StNote|              Stokes, Indian Fairy Tales, No. 27. "Panwpatti Rani,"
88 StNote|           in the Gaelic and Latin tales as written on a mallet left
89 StNote|          invariably were in their tales. I should perhaps add that