collected and retold by Edna LedgardThe people of Burma/Myanmar call it Shwe Pyidaw, the Golden Land, their fertile valley cradled in a horseshoe of mountains. When squabbling Western nations vied for control of the newly-mapped country a century ago, the local population had already lived in the mountainous land for

When a princess learns of her husband's secret past, he turns into a snake. The princess must be brave in order to help him. Can they work together to break the prince's curse? A young man is given a special shape-changing power. He and his brother use the new power

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 288 In this 288th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Indian fairy tale of “THE SNAKE PRINCE”. A poor old lady checked her larder and found she only had enough rice for one last meal. Resigning herself to her fate, she

This handbook is the first in-depth overview of the fascinating world of Burmese folk-tales. Part one provides a wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary survey of folk-tale studies, together with a broad functional classification of Burma's tales. Part two presents, mostly for the first time in a European language, the categorized actual tales

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