This shadow puppet is at least 200 years old and is one of the oldest surviving shadow puppets in the world. It represents Bima the hero of the great Hindu epic The Mahabharata. Puppets like this are ...

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Prologue: the madness of puppets -- A conversation in Rome -- Bad manners -- The scale of the puppet -- The fate of hands -- Wooden acting -- Fables for a puppet theater -- Destroying the puppet show ...