Bengali Folk Tales by Lal Behari DeyMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
A good read for someone not used to the Bengali folk tales.
The tales have some repeated themes like the ogre or someone kidnapping princess and making them sleep by tapping with a silver wand and waking them up with a gold wand and few more.
One may have read some stories like the boy with the moon on forehead and stars in the palm in the Amar Chitra Kathas. I remembered having read it. There are many others which I have not read.
On the whole a decent read though there is nothing Bengali about this. Similar folk tales exist in most Indian folklore.
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