Week 4: Turkish Fairy Tales

Turkish Fairy Tales

Fear
A young boy begins a journey of seeking fear.  He questions it many times along the way when he encounters the dead, is almost strangled, and is faced with the gods.  He becomes the Shah because he has no fear until they place an unexpected bird in a covered flatter and the youth is frightened.

Fish Peri
A youth discovers his fathers way of making money was selling fish.  He is in need of money and begins to fish also.  He is surprised when he begins fishing and bringing the fish home, his house becomes magically clean.  He discovers that the fish turns into a maiden who he falls in love with and marries.  Then the Padishah falls in love with his wife also and tries to take her away.  The youth with the help of the maiden accomplishes every task that is asked of him in order to keep his wife.

Patience Stone and Patience Knife
A maiden and her daughter are troubled by a bird that continuously tells the young girl "she will find her kismet in a dead person."  The girl goes off into the woods with friends when she is suddenly separated by a magically appearing wall.  She discovers within 40 rooms gold, silver, emeralds, ect.  She discovers her kismet by praying and fanning over the Bey.  She becomes his wife and she sends him to find a patience stone and a patience knife.  After he retrieves these items she discovers he is fake and finds her real kismet.

The Liver
In search of liver for her mother, a young girl sets off retrieving several items in order to get the liver a stork stole from her.  She dutifully completes every task by finishing with a kiss to the peasant.

Kunterbunt
A bald man wishes to marry a beautiful princess.  He is asked to do impossible task while in the mean time the princess is arranged to marry someone else.  The bald youth cast spells on everyone freezing them where they are until he finally convinces the father of the princess to let him marry her.