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e sons of sultan bey fairy tales a really great story about three princes who set out to seek their fortune the two older brothers settle for gold but the youngest wants to find a princess to marry a djinn helps him set out in the right direction but he gets shipwrecked on the way and rescued by the bride of the sea the mermaid turns him into a girl so he can go into the king s harem and make friends with the princess she turns out to be a horrible person so the prince goes back into the sea and marries the mermaid instead this is how the little mermaid should have ended libyan jewish women in traditional garb the pupil who bested the master world folklore for storytellers libyan jewish folktale a poor boy sets out to learn a trade so that he can marry the governor s daughter he finds work in the devil s palace and learns magic when he discovers that the devil kills all his pupils he flees there is a shape shifting chase scene during which at one point the girl hides him in the form of a ring and he eventually defeats the devil and marries the governor s daughter where to next egypt posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 12 00 am no comments labels africa folktales following folktales libya monday february 18 2019 love is a matter of blind luck following folktales around the world 99 tunisia 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 tunisian folklore folktales songs proverbs mohamed bacha amazon digital services 2017 this book contains five tunisian folktales translated to english by a tunisian linguist the tales come from a famous storyteller who promoted the telling of folk stories on tv and radio in the 1960s and 70s the english translation has some mistakes usually around spelling and past tenses but they don t make the stories any less enjoyable the book also contains a couple of folk songs in tunisian arabic and english as well as dozens of proverbs from tunisia egypt and other arab countries since there are only 5 tales in the book i decided to write about each of them separately the marvelous akarek a valiant little tailor type folktale about a skinny hero who outsmarts and defeats several dangerous ghouls he becomes an adivsor to the king and after the king s death he forges his own name on the will so he inherits the throne over the decadent prince sultan barbary lion of the new york zoo 1897 jabra and sultan pretty and painfully realistic story jabra young wife of a poor craftsman who makes musical instruments dreams of a better life when her husband overhears her complaining to her mother about their miserable poverty he gets angry and divorces her jabra runs into the woods in shame where she encounters sultan a lion who dreams of being human they fall in love and live together dancing talking swimming and generally being a better story than beauty and the beast eventually jabra pays her parents a visit and spends three days praising the lion and their shared happiness sadly sultan shows up just in time to overhear her mention his one flaw his mouth stinks the lion grows disappointed and divorces jabra the story comes with a moral physical wounds can heal over time but wounds caused by words are forever the lumberjack and the two muses the two muses mentioned in the title are good luck and back luck who take turns steering a poor man s fate through a series of accidents interestingly bad luck eventually gets a headache from the competition and quits whole good luck falls in love with the man s son sadly we don t find out if their love is fulfilled or not mrs pinchwife and crapsalot the cat a woman who likes to keep her house tidy comes into conflict with the neighbor s cat crapsalot who steals food from her pantry and then well craps a lot she cuts off his tail as revenge and the cat has to go through a chain story of events to prove he feels bad for his behavior and win his tail back the hanged man and the dead girl an adorable story despite the title doja a brave and defiant woman who drinks and smokes with the men and once broke a bandit s nose makes a bet than she can bring rope from the gallows at night she cuts down a hanged man and to her shock she finds that 1 he s alive and 2 he s the bandit whose nose she broke she runs away leaving the bandit alone to wander in the night he ends up at the cemetery where he notices the cries of a girl who fleeing a forced marriage had taken some medicine and was accidentally buried alive the bandit rescues the girl they fall in love and escape the city together safseri a traditional tunisian garment that is left behind by doja and makes the bandit think he s seen a ghost where to next libya posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 12 00 am 2 comments labels africa folktales following folktales love stories tunisia thursday february 14 2019 folktales about polyamory valentine s day folklorethursday special today is both folklorethursday and valentine s day i didn t want to do a plain old love stories theme so i polled people on twitter about what they wanted to read the majority vote went to polyamory so here we go disclaimer i m not poly please correct me if i got something wrong first off what is polyamory according to the merriam webster dictionary it is the state or practice of having more than one open romantic relationship at a time it is about being in relationships with more than one other person at a time you can read a lot about it from various sources such as this article in teen vogue or this video or this webcomic on non monogamy don t take my word for it please educate yourselves in terms of finding folktales that are about polyamory here are some things that i had to consider 1 polyamory is not polygamy polygamy means one person being married to multiple people usually a husband with multiple wives and is a cultural and legal practice where participants are not necessarily all equal 2 polyamory is not cheating someone having multiple lovers who don t know about each other is not polyamory with this said the following folktales might not fit the definition perfectly either i wanted to collect them so that people can pick them up and play with them be inspired by them and make tales with better representation because oral tradition works that way gold tree and silver tree scottish folktale in this celtic snow white variant gold tree is the daughter of a king and a jealous queen silver tree since she is more beautiful her mother wants to kill her her father helps her escape with a prince and start a new life when silver tree finds out she manages to find the girl when her husband is out hunting and stick a poison thorn in her finger gold tree falls into a death like state her husband puts her in a glass coffin and grieves and after a while marries again the new wife one day finds the coffin and revives gold tree so that she can see her husband happy not only that but when silver tree shows up again the second wife saves gold tree once and for all tricking the mother into drinking her own poison after that the prince and his two wives live happily ever after polygamy yes but also a whole lot of interaction between the two wives and one woman rescuing another also kaleidoscope s cassie cushing tells a very pretty version of this the girl with three husbands spanish folktale a father has a very strong willed daughter when three men court her at the same time she decides she wants to marry all three of them her father tries to talk her out of it but she insists to he decides to send them on a quest and see which one brings the best gift one guy buys a magic mirror one buys a magic ship and the third a magic ointment that can revive the dead the first looks into the mirror and sees that the girl is dead the second flies them all home on his ship and the last uses the ointment to revive the girl getting out of her coffin the girl tells her father see i need all three of them and they live happily ever after once again polygamy that could also be told as a polyamorous tale tengöri hereberi atyámuram hungarian folktale a magic flight type tale in which a boy unwittingly promised before his birth goes to serve on an island in the house of tengöri hereberi atyámuram a god like figure named after the first line of the cuman translation of the lord s prayer he falls in love with the lord s daughter who helps him complete various tasks and then they run away together her mother however curses them so that the young man forgets his love the moment he goes to visit his parents and never returns to her in their home eventually she finds him and reminds him breaking the spell but by that time he is married again i am including this story on this list because of what happens next the husband says he loves them both the two women get together spend some time talking and eventually return telling him that they are satisfied with 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...
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