Indian Folklore Codexery — Data & Quality

We publish our audit record because accuracy claims should be checkable. Every entry on this site runs through an automated fact-audit pipeline (accuracy audit → source-grounded repair → visual QA); this page is generated from that pipeline's own report, not written by hand.

This is a fiction/fan codex: entries describe an in-universe canon. Our audits check canon and internal consistency — external fact-checking does not apply the way it does on real-subject codexes.

Last full accuracy audit: 2026-09-06 · 5 entries checked · 4 flagged · 8 issues confirmed · 4 corrected · 4 still open

Recent findings (audit lane, verbatim)

Folklore of India — The Panchatantra is most commonly dated to around the 3rd century BCE, but scholarly consensus generally places its composition between the 3rd and 5th centuries CE, not BCE.

Folklore of India — The claim that 'Odiyan is a legendary figure in Kerala folklore, typically a shape-shifting sorcerer who can transform into half-human, half-animal forms' is not a widely established canonical figure in mainstream Indian folklore; Odiyan is more specifically a

Alha-Khand — The entry states the ballads are in Bhojpuri, Bagheli, and other regional languages, but the most widely recognized recensions are in Bundeli and Awadhi, not primarily Bhojpuri or Bagheli.

Alha-Khand — The entry says the original text was composed by Jagnayak (or Jagnik), a contemporary of Chand Bardai, but there is no historical evidence that Jagnik was a real historical figure or that he was a contemporary of Chand Bardai; this is a legendary attribution,

The Ass in the Lion's Skin — The entry claims that C. S. Lewis used the fable in the final volume of The Chronicles of Narnia, with Kathryn Lindskoog identifying the Avianus version as the source. This is factually incorrect: C. S. Lewis did not use 'The Ass in the Lion's Skin' in The Chr

Baba Shivo — The entry claims Shivo's body traveled to Goran after beheading, but in established folklore, it is his head that travels to Goran, not the body.

Baba Shivo — The entry says Shivo was beheaded by Kharadkhatri Rajputs, but the correct community name is 'Kharak Khatri' or 'Kharak Rajputs'.

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