Reading Notes: Turkish, Reading B

Patience-Stone and Patience-Knife

  • I like the repetition in this story
    • The noise the bird makes and the thing it says
  • Stayed inside bc of the warnings
    • eventually ventured out
    • wall between maiden and others
    • awoke with doors filled with precious things
      • 40th door - Bey 
        • Fan for forty days = find her kismet
  • Fallen from maiden to cook
    • gifts: patience-stone and knife
    • Bey's journey to find them
    • Used them to tell her life's story
      • Bey saw and knew the truth - she was his rightful wife

The Soothsayer:
  • An ultimatum 
  • A prank
    • take chief-soothsayer wife's ring, hide it and find it
    • happy ending - from artisan to chief soothsayer 
      • How'd his wife feel about this?


Image information: Illustration by Willy Pogany in book: Forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales

Bibliography:

Patience-Stone and Patience-Knife; Story source: Forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales by Ignacz Kunos, with illustrations by Willy Pogany (1913).
The Soothsayer; Story source: Forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales by Ignacz Kunos, with illustrations by Willy Pogany (1913).

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