Collection of Folk stories from Pitt U

                 Folk stories are simple yet a great moral conveying tools for all classes of men. It contains a subtle message to be imbibed for an ethical upbringing of human being. Often animals plays lead roles in these stories and their conversations with human beings and other species brings a completely different experience to the reader. This style is very natural and in the sense you don't find much similarities often in the contemporary literature.

First in this domain known to exist and spread across the world in different languages is - Panchatantra by Vishnu Sharma from India. This is the most celebrated epic ..

Here is the electronic collection of some of the stories by a professor D.L.Ashliman from Univ of Pittsburg.

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html