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h this arrangement and they all live happily ever after the boy s dream greek folktale a boy sees a dream but refuses to tell anyone what it was about his mother and father get angry and chase him away the kings hires him but soon becomes curious about the mysterious dream when the young man refuses to tell the king orders him to be executed the princess however rescues the young man in secret and they spend time eating and studying together every day they fall in love obviously eventually kirali a turkish ruler or hero starts sending tests to the king which the young dreamer solves in secret and the princess conveys to her father eventually the truth comes out and the young man is invited to kirali s court where he finds out that kirali s daughter is a witch and she has been making up tests to lure him away because she is in love with him and jealous of the princess when our hero finds this out he suggests that he can marry both of them and the women agree no need for jealousy one day as they are all sitting together the witch with a baby girl in her arms and the princess pregnant the young man finally reveals his dream he saw himself surrounded by three roses one open one about to open and one still a bud it was his picture of perfect happiness in my mind this story is about two kinds of courtship one a friends to lovers story and the other a love hate story full of banter the bear and the prince marathi folktale in this stunning folktale from india a bear who is a demon and a magician lives in an underground garden of trees that grow blood fruit his daughter is human and he makes the girl lure men into the cave every day so that he can use their blood to water the trees one day the girl comes across a prince in the jungle and lures him in but they also fall in love it turns out he has been on a mission looking for the blood fruits to cure a sick princess he is also in love with the girl helps the prince kill the demon bear and gather the fruit the prince ends up marrying both her and the cured princess i love the imagery in this tale and also the implied love stories representation matters people there is more than one kind of happily ever after posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 12 00 am 1 comment labels folklorethursday folktales love stories polyamory valentine s day monday february 11 2019 every hero gets and ogre following folktales around the world 98 algeria today i continue the blog series titled following folktales around the world if you would like to know what the series is all about you can find the introduction post here you can find all posts here or you can follow the series on facebook la princesa cautiva y el pájaro del viento mitos y cuentos del norte de argelia óscar abenójar ouahiba immoune fátima zohra menas editorial verbum 2015 i spent a lot of time looking for a collection of algerian folktales and finally found one in spanish which makes me sad because i would love to recommend this book to my storyteller friends who only read english and or hungarian it is an excellent well edited collection it contains 48 stories collected from the oral tradition in northern algeria proving that folktales are alive well into the 21st century some have been translated from the arabic while many from kabyle there is an abundance of extra information provided about the stories as well as the storytelling tradition which seems to be local domestic and mostly nocturnal apparently berber grandmothers would not tell stories in daylight believing a close relative would die or their hair would fall out if they did the stories included in the book are fascinating and there is a long opening study that explores their origins and connections many of them have not been recorded yet outside of europe the authors note that kabyle folktales have stronger european connections than middle eastern or african and contrary to previous belief they do not originate from the middle eastern arabic story tradition in other words berber folktales are not arab folktales there are some stories that don t have parallels at all and there was at least one that seemed to be so old that it only survived in distant isolated cultures in djibouti and india berber folktales therefore are not a melting pot of african arab and european traditions but rather an archaic island tradition with various influences the book contains folktales wonder tales pre islamic myths and even anecdotes to show off the richness of this tradition highlights i especially loved the title story about the captive princess and the wind bird it was one of the longest and most complex stories in the book it started with a princess locked in a tower who was visited every day by the bird until she decided to follow it to do so she asked her father if she could leave the tower and he said yes huh she followed the bird around half the world ended up being a servant in its mother s house killed all evil members of the family and flew away happily on the bird s back another exciting but darker story was about a girl who rescued her brother from beasts the mother and children ran away from the father the mother was killed in the woods by beast but the daughter rescued her baby brother he kid returned the favor by exiling her from his house by his wife s orders later on in the end the girl found a husband and started her own happy family and the earth swallowed up the evil sister in law a similar dark fate befell the man who was eaten by an ogre sadly every supernatural being was translated to spanish as ogre in most cases they were originally ghouls he didn t listen to his wife who suspected the stray goat he brought was was a monster in disguise the clever woman got away with her child and the foolish husband was consumed apart from the belief about the dangers of telling stories by day there was also a story about the dangers of telling stories by night about a woman who told stories all night got older with each tale until she died in the morning according to the informant this story was told to children to explain why they could not ask for one more bedtime story connections i was happy to find a version of the treasures of the giant tale type in the seven brothers and the ogre this is the tale type where one clever sibling in this case literally half a boy born from half an apple saves the others from a man eating monster and then keeps sneaking back to steal the treasures of said monster another favorite tale type of mine that of the talented brothers also made an appearance t hree brothers with extraordinary powers rescued their sister from an ogre there was of course a magic flight story titled the daughter of the ogre and the son of the sultan which was long and elaborate featuring various adventures after the actual flight at one point the girl killed and skinned a servant girl and took her place wearing her skin as disguise many stories had gruesome details like this by the way there were several familiar stories among the wisdom tales and jokes such as the lost camel in which three clever men used their detective talents in finding a lost camel a road shortened by a story and the miller his son and the donkey i have encountered stories in other cultures about why human children can t immediately walk after birth like the young of animals in this case berber shepherds believe that when the first mother gave birth to the first child she refused to lick it clean which is why the child didn t gain the power to walk until much later where to next tunisia posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 12 00 am 2 comments labels africa algeria folktales following folktales thursday february 7 2019 folklorethursday year of the pig pig tales around the world with the lunar new year just behind us february 5th we are now according to the chinese zodiac in the year of the earth pig curly pig tail hungarian folktales very often begin with the same classic formula egyszer volt hol nem volt még az óperenciás tengeren is túl még az üveghegyen is túl ott ahol a kurta farkú kismalac túr which translates into once upon a time far away across the óperenciás sea beyond the glass mountain in the place where the curly tailed piglet roots around no one is exactly sure why the curly tailed pig is such an important element next to the mythical seas and mountains my guess is because it rhymes in at least one case i know the formula goes in the place where they put golden shoes on the pig and floated it down the river which is also quite the vivid image whatever the case in honor of folklore thursday and year of the pig here are some of my favorite pig folktales from around the world the ocean warming pig folktales from china a poor bald headed young orphan raises a pig in his hut the pig grows large but its skin shrivels like raisins one day a muslim treasure hunter offers to buy it for a large sum of money baldhead demands to know why the wrinkly pig is so valuable he finds out that his pet is a so called rare ocean warming pig if you boil it in a cauldron on the beach the sea will boil with it and when all the water from the cauldron evaporates so does the sea leaving all its treasures uncovered baldhead immediately puts theory to practice the sea boils down to such low levels that the dragon king sends panicked messengers asking him to stop baldhead gets to visit the dragon king s underwater palace and eventually wins the youngest dragon princess hand we never find out what happened to the wrinkly pig though the red pig hungarian folktales in this popular hungarian folktale type a poor couple wishes for a child one day a piglet is born to them or in some versions comes down the chimney they raise the pig as their own and when she is old enough send her to school the piglet occasionally named malac julcsa pig julie or malacka zsuzsi piglet susie proves to be a good student and goes out to pick berries in the forest with her classmates after school when no one is looking she sheds the pig skin and turns into a beautiful girl eventually a guy sees her do this falls in love with her and marries her despite the scandal and mockery of the entire town on the wedding day the pig turns into a beautiful girl forever another related version is very similar to my favorite cinderella type read about it here in this one instead of berry picking the pig makes her way into the king s garden to steal golden plums first with the help of a woodpecker and second with the help of a mole rat the prince spies a pretty girl climbing the golden plum tree and tries three days in a row to catch her the third day she literally runs out of the garden between his legs eventually he tracks the fleeing pig to her house where he proposes to court her they fall in love and the rest is history source and more info here st anthony s pig italian folktales in this genius folktale from sardinia st anthony wows to steal fire from hell to keep people warm he goes downstairs with his trusty pig companion and asks to be let in he is refused but as he is talking through the cracked door with the devils the pig sneaks in and well raises hell inside hell it roots around chews things knocks thing over pees on things eventually st anthony is let in to get the pig out he takes with him a fennel staff and when the staff touches the flames of hell its spongy inside starts to burn pig in one hand and staff in the other anthony says goodbye to hell and brings the stolen fire to our world black pig dyke armagh folktales in this delightful folktale a teacher who likes to torture students by turning them into various animals and making them hunt each other how is that for the hunger games is punished by outraged parents by being turned into a large black pig the pig ravages the countryside tearing a deep ditch into the ground but at least it can never turn back into a teacher again bluebeard pig danish fairy book in this favorite bluebeard variant of mine a girl and her two sisters are kidnapped by a pig who turns out to be a handsome but evil serial wife murderer the youngest girl is smart enough to rescue her two sisters from captivity and finally trick the pig man into letting her go as well this tale type exists with a lot of different villains devil man dragon man male witch etc but always has a smart female lead beauty and the pig there are several variants of the beauty and the beast folktale type where the beast is a pig in some hungarian versions i have blogged about before he can even be extra special such as a magical gardener pig or a green pig flying pigs dancing on blades i have blogged about this charming story and the extreme pig herding motif before here a young swineherd has to keep the king s pigs together while they repeatedly try to get away by burrowing into the ground jumping into the river or flying up into the air like balloons each time they are retrieved by helpful animal companions talking pigs that are secretly wizards and also have military training yes this is also hungarian folktale i blogged about it here happy year of the pig everyone posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 12 00 am 2 comments labels animals folklorethursday folktales year of the pig monday february 4 2019 the last storytellers following folktales around the world 97 morocco today i continue the blog series titled following folktales around the world if you would like to know what the series is all about you can find the introduction post here you can find all posts here or you can follow the series on facebook the last storytellers tales from the heart of morocco richard hamilton i b tauris 2011 richard hamilton collected thirty seven folktales between 2006 and 2009 on the jemaa el fna the famous market of marrakesh where the five tellers of these tales were among the last who still make or used to make a living from telling stories to a live audience the translations are not verbatim and hamilton admits to occasionally embellishing the language of the stories but they are close to the originals this is not a folklore publication by a long shot so it lacks notes but it is a very enjoyable read and has a long and detailed introduction to the circumstances of collection moroccan storytelling tradition and the tellers themselves highlights i have always loved the mute princess story and this book has a fascinating version of it titled the gazelle with the golden horns in it the sultan s third son born from a black slave mother succeeds in making the princess talk he spends his life partying until one day four fairies attend his party and help him with a story the guy cleans up wins the princess and becomes a great ruler another beautiful story also had a black hero the tale of el ghaliya bent mansour started and ended with golden apples and in between the hero was helped by djinn magic horses fling carpets and all the trappings of wonder tales to win the hand of a princess who lived underground seven coins and a donkey was a fun story about three women who decided...
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