Oral tradition Indian folktale
In this folktale from India an elephant shows us the follies of vanity.
Story
A vain elephant gets his just reward.
Why we chose it
This was one of the stories in The Story Museum’s original audio stories collection. These stories are particularly suitable for learning to retell.
Associated stories
In his Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling tells the story of The Elephant’s Child who gets his trunk in a tug of war with a crocodile.
Oral tradition Indian folktale