Jacobs selected from the Jataka, the Panchatantra, the Katha Sarit Sagara and modern collections, and retold them for reading aloud: the lion and the crane, the tiger, the Brahman and the jackal, the magic fiddle, the demon with the matted hair — with notes tracing how many reached Europe long before the Grimms.
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