Come Quote by Joseph Jacobs

Certainly there is abundant evidence of the early transmission by literary means of a considerable number of drolls and folk-tales from India about the…

— Joseph Jacobs

India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.

— Salman Rushdie

Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.

— Ashwin Sanghi

“Most of Aesop’s fables have many different levels and meanings. There are those who make myths of them by choosing some feature that fits…

— Michel de Montaigne

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.

— Paul Henderson

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with…

— Patricia Briggs

“But despite these signs of ill-omen, the city was poised, with a new myth glinting in the corners of its eyes. August in Bombay:…

— Salman Rushdie

I am familiar with the Odiyan legend, as my mother used to tell me that her grandmother would narrate the Odiyan tales while she…

— M. Jayachandran

“Good storytelling is one thing rural whites and Indians have in common. But native Americans have learned through harsh necessity that people who survive…

— Kathleen Norris

“myths reflect centuries of oral tradition in non-literate as well as literate peoples – when it comes to the supernatural, there's no beating folklore.”…

— Kailin Gow

(They) were responsible for spreading the Buddhist religion throughout India and East Asia.

— Gautama Buddha