Balti Folk Stories

Most people have heard at least some of the Gesar saga - stories that are famous throughout the Tibetan world.  But there are also other folk tales told in Baltistan, many of them Persian in origin. 

Click on the buttons below to read some of these, recorded over the past two decades in Baltistan. Since the stories vary from speaker to speaker, the details may differ from the tale as you know it. 

 

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