The Maid In The Box

Every nation in the world has its own folklore heritage — legends, myths, fairy-tales. In such stories the wisdom of every nation is collected and embodied, although some of the nations have similar tales, especially those who are neighbours. Legend and myths employ elements of supernatural origin: magic, gods, wonderful creatures. Tales are stories that are suppoped to teach the coming generations by depicting various situations and various types of behaviour demonstrated by the heroes. This is an old Indian legend about a girl who was cconsidered the most beautiful girl of tribe. Her mother was afraid that the girl could be captured by enemies and to prevent that she put her in a wooden box and broght to the lake...