Reading Diary B: Turkish Fairy Tales

Turkish Fairy Tales

Patience-Stone and Patience-Knife:

• Why didn't the mother want her daughter hearing what the bird had to say
• Why did the author use the word purr for a bird.. that makes me think of a cat
• Was the bey dead when the maiden found him? Since should would find her Kismet in someone who was dead?
• Since the Maiden let someone else (an Arab) fan the bey, the Arab then wed the bey
• I thought the Arab was supposed to be a lesson to the maiden, but really the Arab simply defied the maiden
• The ending of the story was my favorite part, happily ever after

The Imp of the Well:

• The mans wife was rude and inconsiderate
• She followed him when he told her not to, and ended up at the bottom of a well with no help out
• The next day the man went back and could not find his wife in the well
• The Imp told him what to do to become rich
• The man became a healer and married the princess

The Soothsayer:

• The man in the story had a beard which made him look a lot older than he really was
• The mans wife wanted him to become a soothsayer, but the man claimed he had no time
• The man became hodja, he found lost or stolen rings for the ladies 
• Being able to find these things so easily, the man became the chief soothsayer

The Soothsayer

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The Wizard and His Pupil:

• The women's son always ran away from the schools she sent him
• The boy like the wizard and wished to be his apprentice 
• The master turned into various animals, and the boy was told to sell them but keep the rope
• The boy then turned him self into a bath and had his mother sell it telling her to keep the key
• The Wizard bought the bath and made the woman give him the key
• The boy after changing into a bird and many other things changed back into him self and wrung the cocks neck, which was his master
• The boy got to marry the Padishahs daughter, and him and his mother were no longer poor
• I think this story could have a better lesson to it, the boy did lots of bad things and still ended up with good

The Liver:

• The girl told her story, and every time just added something to it
• The story got so long it was hard to read 
• Everyone wanted something in return for what the girl was asking
• The girl did everything everyone asked her to, and in the end was returned the liver from the stork
• I feel as if the story had no point to it

Madjun:

• The young man did not know any trade, but wanted the princess
• He asked his mother to ask for the girls hand in marriage 
• The Dervish told the young boy all the things he needed to do to please the Pardishah
• The boy crying "Madjun" stopped everything so he could continue on his quest the Pardishah gave him
• The bald young man got to marry the princess

Kunterbunt:

• The very beginning of the story made me think of the three stooges
• How did they do the things they did when the things they came upon were already dead?
• This story made no sense at all to me throughout the whole thing
• Until I came to the end and the man was dreaming, which makes sense because I dream of some weird crap all the time that makes no sense