Fear
-These characters seem to be very different than European fairy tales
-This boy is already brave and rather than learning a big lesson, teaches everyone around him about bravery and having no fear.
-Though the woman is in an odd position to try to get the boy to marry him, instead of forcing him, she is the only one who figures out how to scare him and it is simple and she actually earns the marriage and convinces him to be king.
Wizard-Dervish
-Hard to tell which characters are good or bad in these stories
-the wizard took away the prince at 20 years, but still, he gave them a prince for 20 years.
-He flogs the prince for three days, but then after he gives him one of his daughters for marriage.
-Very odd wizard
-There's also a witch, maybe she will be more clearly the bad guy
-They are in this chase with the witch, escape, the prince goes home, and then the dervish sets it up for the first wedding to become their wedding and they are married.
-I don't see any lesson to be learned from this and its fairly short on action, but it is still a nice story.
The Fish-Peri
-The boy discovers a fish and doesn't eat it because it's pretty, is rewarded with beautiful, magical wife.
-Very unlike other mermaid stories, but basically there is not a bad guy, but someone else who wants to marry the girl.
-Magic beats royalty
-Also, he keeps not following instructions and nothing bad is coming of it
-The magic slaps the king in the face, best ending
The Crow-Peri
-Same story as the fish but instead of completing tasks to marry his wife, he is saving his own life
-However, he does end up with the crow still and now the king gets a fairy queen wife too.
Patience-Knife and Patience-Stone
-Weird bird foretelling a girl's fate with a dead person.
-This may be an odd reversal of Snow White where the girl has to work for forty days to bring back to life the prince. So maybe more like the frog prince even.
-Arab swoops in and steals the prince at the last second, now the other girl is a servant
-Kismet wins. That's fate.
The Imp in the Well
-We continue with very odd characters where the good people are not really that good and the bad people are not that bad.
-The "bad guy" in this is kind of the imp because imps are just evil spirits in this that make you sick.
-But, the main man's wife is actually the worst wife ever and the most annoying woman ever.
-So annoying that the thought of her being near casts the imp out of a princess and saves the day
The Soothsayer
-This guy also has a wife that is jealous and kind of nagging, but this time we forgive her because she is really beautiful so the husband doesn't want her to leave. Everyone knows that attractiveness to allowed crazy is a ratio and if one is higher than the other must be higher or deal off.
-Also, this man gets a position of high authority by lying and cheating just because his wife wants to take fancier baths.
The Wizard and His Pupil
-I am using this in my storybook section
-The pupil is a rebel against the wizard, but the wizard is bad so it's kind of alright when he kills the wizard finally
-These Turkish characters really are tough
The Liver
-This is more like a nursery rhyme
-It's a long list of things that the girl has to get so she can bring home the liver for dinner and the list slowly gets longer until she finally gets one thing and then is able to get everything else.
-Like the one with the lady who swallowed a fly
Madjun
-Similar to other stories where the boy has to complete impossible tasks to marry the Sultan's daughter
-Also, he is bald for some reason
-This one uses the same spell to freeze a bunch of people in place
Kunterbunt
-Really weird nonsensical stuff
-Don't worry it was all a dream
All the Turkish Fairy Tales in this unit can be found here.
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