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| Image information: Turkish Fairy Tales cover: Source: Myth-Folklore UnTextbook |
Fear:
Fear as a learned behavior. Not inborn response. Or maybe
this kid just alone does not feel/understand fear? No one is able to understand
how this youth remains free from fear.
Fear Continued:
He continues to go through all these things that would
terrify others but feels nothing. Becomes king, stil yearns to find fear. He
finds it not by almost being buried to death, but by opening a soup pot lid
with a sparrow in it.
The Wizard-Dervish:
A king is sorrowful because he does not have a son. He is
offered one by a wizard/holy-man as long as he gives him to him on his
twentieth birthday. Accepts a random prince who comes to him and his wife. He
is kidnapped and beaten for something. Released for not knowing. Marriage
without consent.
The Wizard-Dervish Continued:
Trickery and magic to avoid consequences from parents. He
gets returned to his real family and no time at all had passed. Dream? Nope
real, and he proves his love for the dove-maiden and they live happily ever
after.
A Fish-Peri:
A man ashamed of how he makes his money. Son unbeknownst to
him follows in his father’s profession. He caught a fish so lovely he could not
kill it and kept it in his personal pond. The fish becomes a maiden and then
his wife after he burns her fish skin.
She is so beautiful the king decides to marry her instead and gives the youth
an impossible task to complete if he wants to keep her. The maiden has some
secrets, however, and believes it possible.
A Fish-Peri Continued:
The Maiden is ridiculously low-key about everything. She
totally just goes with the flow. She just keeps rolling with everything and
coming out of top. If only everyone was like that. And she obviously has a lot
of love for the fisherman. It also ended
on a riddle, which was kind of a cool concept.
The Crow-Peri:
Theme of children not knowing their parent’s occupations.
Another king who demands too much. A jealous man who seeks to destroy someone
else. A person (bird) that acts as a guide between the mystical and the
mundane.
The Crow-Peri Continued:
The guide demands a trip to do the last task. Also kidnap a
queen. He managed to find the king a wife and simultaneously enrage the lala
even more. In a huge twist the bird is a transformed former servant-woman who
upset the queen. But was apparently still loved because she became a woman
again and married the young man. Lots of women changing from animals back to
people.
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