🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 28

The stories which have been passed on from generation to generation, are, like the legends of the West, to some extent mythical, but no doubt based on actual incidents in the past which, in the repeated telling, have been added to and embroidered in a way calculated to impress the minds of the simple folk who heard them; and thus their remembrance and transmission to later generations has been assured.

Who acts: stories, simple folk · What happens: pass on, be, base, repeat, add, embroider · To what, where: stories, generation, doubt, actual incidents, repeated telling, way

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