VIII. Loving Laili. VIII. Loving Laili. of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 17 sentences and 173 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.
1 _Source. 2 _--Miss Stokes, _Indian Fairy Tales_, pp. 3 73-84. 4 Majnun and Laili are conventional names for lovers, the Romeo and Juliet of Hindostan. 5 _Parallels. 6 _--Living in animals' bellies occurs elsewhere in Miss Stokes' book, pp. 7 66, 124; also in Miss Frere's, 188. 8 The restoration of beauty by fire occurs as a frequent theme (Temple, Analysis, III. vi. f. p. 418). 9 Readers will be reminded of the _dénouement_ of Mr. Rider Haggard's _She_. 10 Resuscitation from ashes has been used very effectively by Mr. Lang in his delightful _Prince Prigio_. 11 _Remarks. 12 _--The white skin and blue eyes of Prince Majnun deserve attention. 13 They are possibly a relic of the days of Aryan conquest, when the fair-skinned, fair-haired Aryan conquered the swarthier aboriginals. 14 The name for caste in Sanskrit is _varna_, "colour"; and one Hindu cannot insult another more effectually than by calling him a black man. 15 _Cf. 16 _ Stokes, pp. 17 238-9, who suggests that the red hair is something solar, and derived from myths of the solar hero. ← previous VII. the Cruel Crane Outwitted.next → IX. the Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal.↑ back to Indian Fairy Tales This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/39/