Soils and national characteristics differ, but Fairy Tales are the same in plot and incidents the world over. "The Lion and the Crane," "How the Raja\'s Son Won the Princess Labam," "The Broken Pot," "The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal," "The Talkative Tortoise," "The Ass in the Lion\'s Skin," "Why the Fish.
So proved the leading British folklorist Joseph Jacobs (1854-1916) with this now classic volume of 29 traditional Tales from India, including some of the oldest recorded Tales known.
Soils and national characteristics differ, but Fairy Tales are the same in plot and incidents the world over