Crane offers to save the life of the lion when he was choking
Wants reward- lion says his reward is that he didn't eat him
Crane did not befriend lion
Source here
The Broken Pot*
Svabhavakripana "a born miser", plans to buy goats and cows and food with rice
big ambitions from pot of rice- gets overly excited and breaks pot of rice
The Magic Fiddle
7 brothers and a sister, sister did all chores
interfere with her work
started drowning
turned into bamboo, turned into a fiddle
The Cruel Crane Outwitted
Crane tried outwitting the fish- promising them good future
Showed one fish the promise land
Killed and ate fish
tried to get crab-held crane around neck/ cut off head
Tiger, Brahman, Jackal
Tiger in cage, brahmin wont let out bc he will eat him
Tried to reach out to tree, buffalo, road, jackal
confused jackal/ outsmarted tiger
Harisarman
Brahman that lived in Harisarman, poor and foolish
feast for a wedding
Wife says he possesses magical knowledge
stole a horse
Found the horse/ got reward
The man prospered
The Charmed Ring
Stopped men from killing dog w 100 rupees
Stopped men from killing cat w 100 rupees
& snake
discipled by father, but animals worshipped him
master left to find snake's dad
cat and dog stayed home
given ring and pot and spoon
married princess
different prince fell in love with princess
took away house and princess
cat and dog found princess and house
Continued
must find the charmed ring
rats recovered ring
fish swallowed ring on the way home
ring on kite
recovered ring
wife and house returned
Bibliography:
From "Indian Fairy Tales" by Joseph Jacobs
Source here.
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