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FOREWORD
The story is a kind of “Saying” It is however, a kind of literary form from ages but it does spring from deep human impulses and does fulfil human needs Stories of witchcraft and enchantment, wondering loose 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 changing and directing the Socioeconomic structures With the progress of Science, prose literature come to prominence and Rationality took place on the head of irrational sentiments and emotions On the threshold of Technological development Epic age took to heals and soon the literary form changed to new social and spiritual requirements of Atomic age Specialisation has created labour divisions and scarcity of time for man. Consequently, stories, specifically, short stories, have become the predominant form of literary expression to meet the contemporary historical necessities.
The History of the development of stories and fables 4 running through from primitive time to our present space age. It was a link between 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 institutional organisations, These stories represent the cultural history of their times
Vedic Age is a transitory period 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 development of society 1. e, towards vedic age, The characters of these stories were birds and animals but that was symbolic
