Note 130 — Chapter VIII · THE APPROACH TO THE BORO BUDOOR

The influence of eastern fables on western literature and art in all its branches cannot be overestimated as exemplified for instance, with special relevance to the one just referred to, by the late Emm. Poiré (Caran d’Ache) when he made our old friend Marius imitate the snail’s braggadocio in his delightful cartoon Les Pantoufles en peau de tigre (Lundis du Figaro). And the story of the vulture and the turtles found its way, via American plantation legends, into J. C. Harris’ tales of Uncle Remus. Concerning the manner of the “Migration of Fables” from East to West, most interesting particulars can be found in Max Müller’s Chips from a German Workshop, iv., p. 145 ff.