The milkmaid and her pail
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The Milkmaid and Her Pail is a folktale of Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 1430 about interrupted daydreams of wealth and fame. Ancient tales of this type exist in the East but Western variants are not foun
'The fable of the girl and her milk pail' by Kate Greenaway, 1893
The Merry Milkmaid, after Marcellus Laroon (c. 1688)
A copy of Pavel Sokolov's statue of The girl with the pitcher in the park of Britz Castle
Panchatantra
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The Panchatantra is an ancient Indian collection of interrelated animal fables in Sanskrit verse and prose, arranged within a frame story. The text's author is unknown, but it has been attributed to V
The milkmaid and her pail
…acting it out, they break the container on which their dream is founded and find themselves worse off. One of the earliest is included in the Indian Panchatantra as "The brahman who built air-castles". There a man speculates about the wealth that will flow from selling a pot of grain that he has been given…
The first page of oldest surviving Panchatantra text in Sanskrit
An 18th-century Pancatantra manuscript page in Braj ("The Talkative Turtle")
A Panchatantra relief at the Mendut temple, Central Java, Indonesia
A Panchatantra manuscript page