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Arunachal Pradesh Folk Tale – Flying Monks – {Ep.232} – Stories From India – Podcast

Today’s story is an Arunachal Pradesh Folk Tale. It’s about students at a monastery, whose teacher really wanted them to learn flying […]

Today we’ll cover a couple of stories from the Panchatantra. Both of these feature Lions and Jackals. The first one has another […]

A Bihar folk Tale with a surprising amount in common with European folk tales including Hansel and Gretel and Goldilocks and the […]

Today we’ll cover a couple of stories from the Panchatantra about Angry Birds – seriously, don’t cross them or they can inflict […]

Today’s story is a Nagaland folk tale about Momola – a girl who became a mermaid. Also featuring a river that flooded […]

Today’s story is a folk tale from Assam – featuring a cruel stepmother and several magical transformations that completely contradict what we […]

Today’s story is about Raja Vikramaditya and his battle with an evil sorcerer, and against whom he needs powerful Trans-Himalayan allies. Luckily […]

Today’s story is a Punjabi folk tale about a girl who married the King of Crocodiles. If you go back on your […]

This story is a folk tale from Odisha set in the village of Sakshigopala about true love, a broken promise, and Lord […]

Today’s story is from the Hitopadesha. It features a vulture, a cat and a day care for little birds that pays a […]