Cinderella in Tibet.(Vetalapancavimsati)

A story in chapter 11 of the Vetalapancavimsati Contains the elements of some widely occurring folktales. This story, preserved in Tibetan literature, could be quite old and closely related to the origins of all Cinderella-type stories. It is a well-formed didactic tale with sound etiological grounding; and it is reasonable to assume that, as it migrated from one community to another and encountered different moral systems, certain events, having lost the social context that gave them meaning, became random elements dictated by a nameless fate.

In this regard it is interesting to note how ...

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