07-17-2009, 09:08 PM
Thanks Dhu!
Here is Joseph Jacobs book on Indian Fairy tales.
Read in particular his Preface and the Notes section where he discusses the origins of the folklore literature of Europe and Africa.
So not only the Chinese but the "West" owes a great debt of imagination to the Indics.
We had a thread on Indian folklore and transmission. We need to cross post these two posts there.
Here is Joseph Jacobs book on Indian Fairy tales.
Read in particular his Preface and the Notes section where he discusses the origins of the folklore literature of Europe and Africa.
So not only the Chinese but the "West" owes a great debt of imagination to the Indics.
We had a thread on Indian folklore and transmission. We need to cross post these two posts there.