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FOREWARD
The story is a kind of "Saying". It is however, a kind of literary from ages but it does spring from deep human impulses and does fulfill human needs. Stories of witchcraft and enchantment, wandering Icose in men's mind, attached themselves in the early Sixteenth Century to a real life The religious stories have played a revolutionary role at a time in cbanging and directing the Socio-economic structures With the progress of Science, prose literature came to prominence and Rationality tcok place on the head of irrational sentiments and emotions on the threshhold of Technological development Epic age tcok to beals and soon the literary from changed to Dew social ard spiritual requirements of Atoric age Specialisation has created labour divisions and scarcity of time for man Consequently, storiès, specifcally short stories, have become the predominant form of literátý expression to meet the contemporary historical necesseties
Thé History of the developmert of stories and fables is running through from primitive time to our present space age It was a link tetween wise sages and common people Stories and fables carried the message of religious scripts to the common people
From primitive age stories have been used as a tool to depict the development of primitive institut oral organisations These stories represent the cultural history of their times,
Vedic Age is a transitory fer.od between primitive socialism and slave system The stories and fables of primitive age envelope in themselves the worship of Natural gods and godesses and battles between gods and devils (Devasur-Sangram) The essence is that they represented the changes which was seeded therein for further develosment of society ie, towards vedic Age, The characters of
