Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Reading Notes: Lost Daughter, Part B

  • There is a beautiful daughter of a rich merchant
  • He says that she can choose her husband
    • She says she wants one that is either very wise or skillful
  • Word spreads of what the beautiful, rich daughter wants in a man
    • Three suitors
      • one essentially knows all "knows what is lost, and the future"
      • Second can build a floating wooden horse
      • third is a great archer
  • Daughter says she will sleep on it
    • goes missing in the night
  • Father asks all three for help
    • The first knows what happened to her
      • she was kidnapped by a fairy and taken to the top of a mountain
    • Second builds horse to go to the mountain
    • Third rides the horse and shoots the fairy, brings the girl home
  • Parrot tells mistress that she will know if her lover is wise if he can say that the third suitor should marry the daughter

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The Merchant whose Daughter Was LostThe Tooti Nameh or Tales of a Parrot, by Ziya'al-Din Nakhshabi (1801).

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