Folktales from Northern India Quotes

“As Lutz Röhrich has shown in his Märchen und Wirklichkeit (Folktale and Reality, 2001), legend, myth, and folktale not only are different types of narratives but create different relations between the tellers and narrative. One may “believe” in a legend, but one “enjoys” a folktale. Both are fiction, but they affect people’s relation to their reality in different ways at different historical times.”
― Sadhana Naithani, Folktales from Northern India