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Joseph Jacobs (1854-1916) has complied this collection of Indian fairy tales. Jacobs was a noted folklorist and creator of the Jewish Encyclopedia. His collections of Fairy Tales include English, Celtic Jewish and Indian tales. Stories in this collection include The Lion and the Crane, How them Raja's Son Won the Princess Labam, The Lambkin, Punchkin, The Broken Pot, The Magic Fiddle, The Cruel Crane Outwitted, Loving Laili, The Tiger, the Brahman and the Jackal, The Soothsayer's Son, Harisarman, The Charmed Ring, The Talkative Tortoise, A Lac of Rupees For a Piece of Advice, The Gold-Giving Serpent, The Son of Seven Queens, A Lesson for Kings, Pride Goeth Before a Fall, Maja Rasalu, The Ass in the Lion's Skin, The Farmer and the Money-Lender, The Boy Who Had a Moon on His Forehead and a Star on his Chin, The Prince and the Fakir, Why the Fish Laughed, The Demon with the Matted Hair, The Ivory City and its Fairy Princess, Sun Moon and Wind go out to Dinner, How the Wicked Sons were Duped, and The Pigeon and the Crow