Reading Notes: Indian Fairy Tales Part B

- Characters
- Haridatta
- cloth merchants


- Plot
- tortoise story: refer to earlier notes
- farmer Haridatta is not very successful
- he falls asleep and hears a snake nearby
- the farmer goes to worship the snake hoping to be more successful
- he provided milk to the serpent and was given gold denar
- the farmer attempted to kill the snake but failed
- the snake kills his son
- the farmer vowed to never return
- ten merchants are approached by robbers
- the robbers took everything from them
- the merchants then attack the robbers to get back their belongings





Gold Giving Serpent by John D Batten





Bibliography: The Gold-Giving Serpent by Joseph Jacobs


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