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Patience-Stone and Patience-Knife:
Fate (kismet) as a big deal in life. Soulmates. Omens of
three. A wall of magic separates her from the mundane world and she encounters
someone who says can help find her kismet if she completes a hard task for him.
Patience-Stone and Patience-Knife Continued:
Her kismet gets stolen by another woman at the last moment
and she is banished to the life of a cook. The Bey gets curious about the woman
who is his cook. She laments her misfortune and the Bey sees it all happen and
keeps her form killing herself and then they live happily ever after.
The Imp of the Well:
This is one story that is hateful towards the wife. She is
old and not beautiful, and a shrew apparently. So he leaves her to die in a
well. Instead he finds an imp in the well and the imp promises a new better,
younger, prettier, daughter of a sultan as a wife.
The Imp of the Well Continued:
The imp tried to take back his own princess out of greed and
then was scared out of her by the threat of the woodcutter’s old wife left
behind in the well. Ugh
The Soothsayer:
Jealousy. Threats of leaving your significant other for
something/someone better. Ridiculous request is going to be done because the
wife is beautiful. Like being beautiful is more important than anything else. He
became a soothsayer by deceit and lies.
The Wizard and His Pupil:
A young boy finding and committing himself to something that
he believes in (wizardry) but instead the story becomes deceit. And then
betrayal when the young man leaves his wizard man behind to make money. The
youth disposing of his master, becoming his own man. And he lived happily ever
after and married the king’s daughter.
The Liver:
A lot of bartering in these stories. She kissed a stranger
for a gift.
Madjun:
Another story of a young man who ran away from his problems
and the things that he didn’t want to do. Fell in love with Sultan’s daughter
at first sight. Another impossible task for a daughter’s hand in marriage. And
then another. Led by a wizard who acted as his guide. A lot happens to him but
eventually he wins the daughter’s hand in marriage.
Kunterbunt:
One long riddle. Everything in threes. In the end it was all
a dream.
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