Folk Tales tales composed orally by illiterate people belonging to rural communities and passed on from one generation to the next by means of telling and retelling. Because of their oral nature, folk tales often tend to have different versions. Folktales may include fairy tales, called rupkatha or parikahini in Bangla. Although called 'fairy tales', all such stories do not necessarily have fairies but are stories of a prince's adventures and his winning the hand of a beautiful princess or about the rewards bestowed on a kind girl because of her humility, kindness, hard work etc. These stories contain accounts of magical powers, divine help etc. In German, this type of tale is called 'marchen'. Books like Thakurmar Jhuli, Thakurdadar Jhuli, Thandidir Thale etc, edited by Dakshina Ranjan Mitra Majumder, are collections of fairy tales.
Jasimuddin (Bengali: জসীম উদ্দীন) (1 January 1903 – 13 March 1976), popularly called Palli Kabi (Pastoral Poet), was a Bangladeshi poet, lyricist, composer, and writer widely celebrated for his modern ballad sagas in the pastoral mode. His Nakshi Kanthar Math and Sojan Badiar Ghat are considered among the best lyrical poems in the Bengali language. He is the key figure for the revivals of pastoral literature in Bengal during the 20th century. A versatile writer, Jasimuddin wrote poems, ballads, songs, dramas, novel, stories, memoirs, travelogues, etc.