The Story of Lalpila

The Story of Lalpila is an Indian folktale collected from the Baiga people by ethnologist Verrier Elwin. It is related to the cycle of the Calumniated Wife, and is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as tale type ATU 707, "The Three Golden Children".

These tales refer to stories where a girl promises a king she will bear a child or children with wonderful attributes, but her jealous relatives or the king's wives plot against the babies and their mother. Many variants of the tale type are registered in India, although they comprise specific cycles in this country. In one of the cycles, the king's children's play-pretend with wooden horses leads to their father discovering the truth. Variants of the sort are recorded in Asia (India and Iran), and also in Spain and in Africa.

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