Reading Notes B
Patience-Stone and Patience-Knife: A girl experiences a bird that says, "Oh poor maiden, your kismet is with a dead person." this occurred twice so the mother and maiden decided to never leave their house again. One day some young girls asked if the maiden could play with them one day and the mother was very reluctant but let her. While the girls were playing a magic wall appeared out of nowhere and spilt the girls up. The maiden saw a beautiful palace in front of her and went inside and saw many rooms full of precious stones. In the last room she saw a bey and her quest was to pray over him and fan him for 40 days and so she did. The bey wanted to repair the maiden but the maiden had switched places with and Arab girl. Soon later the bey asked the maiden what she wanted and she asked for a patience stone and a patience knife. The bey eventually brings them back to her and she goes off into the kitchen and confesses everything to the stone and it bursts. The bey overheard the maiden and killed the Imposter girl and married the maiden and brought her mother to the palace and they lived happily ever after.
The Imp of the Well: A man was tired of his wife and rode off into the mountains but she had followed him. She ended up falling into a well and the man left her there and returned home. The next day he went back to fetch her because he became guilty. When he dropped the rope an imp grabbed on to it and in return for the man helping him the imp gave the man three leaves. He was told to use these leaves to save the princess as gratitude. So eventually the man did as the imp had told him to do and saved and married the princess. But, another princess needed help so he returned to the imp with his new wife. The man tricked the imp into taking the one princess so he could help the other. Then they all lived happily ever after.
The Soothsayer: A man wanted to fulfill the wishes of his wife of becoming a Soothsayer in order to keep her from leaving. He was not sure how to do this but his friend pointed him in the direction of the bath woman. The bath woman helped him to find the ring of the chief soothsayer's wife. He was perceived to be a Hodja who miraculously found her ring. Then, Sultana lost her ring and said that the Hodja must find it so while he was imprisoned overnight the slave who stole the ring came forward. The Hodja told the slave exactly what to do with it and so she did. The next day when he was released he revealed where the ring was and became the chief Soothsayer and the poor artisan became a famous Hodja.
The Wizard and His Pupil: A young boy saw the wizard at the market and wanted to be his apprentice. He became the wizard's apprentice and helped the wizard make money by the wizard transforming into an animal and being sold. The boy's job was to keep ahold of the rope so that the wizard could return. After succeeding a few time the boy went home and told his mom and tried to do the same and had his mom keep ahold of the key. The wizard was furious at the boy because he was not there when the wizard returned and was trying to use his tricks and he figured it out. The boy quickly kept transforming into things to get away from the wizard but the wizard kept transforming too. Eventually, the boy turned into pellets and the wizard turned into a cock in front of the Padishah but the cock missed a pellet so the boy quickly transformed and killed the cock. The Padishah was amazed at the wizardry so he wed his daughter to the boy and they all lived happily ever after.
The Liver: A stork took a girls liver but she needed it for her mother. But the stork asked for something in return and so did the next person, the next person, and so on. Finally she came to the peasant who did not ask for anything in return thus she was able to fulfill everybody wishes and get her liver back and they all live happily ever after.
Bibliography: Ignacz Kunos, Un-Textbook
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