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Which traditional story collections did Rudyard Kipling parody in Just So Stories?
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Rudyard Kipling
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In his 1902 collection Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling parodied the style and subject matter of several traditional literary works. Specifically, he drew upon and satirized the following:
- The Buddhist Jataka tales1
- The Thousand and One Nights1