Fayiz and the Peri Wife:
- A married man, who was true-hearted and honest, and very handsome (how long will this last?).
- Knowing the identity of your spouse is on a need-to-know basis: trick!
- She willingly suspects her human husband to be unfaithful while cursing him to have sorrows for the rest of his life if he is unfaithful to only her...
- This story reminds me of Psyche and Cupid's love palace in the beginning of the story, but the Peri actually kept her vowels and never let her human husband see her or their sons again.
The Hemp-Smoker's Dream:
- A dream story.
- Demanding the king's daughter with only a handful of men... while a king has an army.
- Seventy pots of ash, not the soup.
- The arrow went all the way from China to under the chenar tree to the west.
- This was an interesting story.
The Story of the Wolf-Bride:
- You cannot cheat death or fate.
The Man Who Went to Wake His Luck:
- The embodiment of one's luck
- A woman king! and then the reason the people will not obey her is ... because she's a woman. Great.
- The wolf ate him! He forgot to ask his Luck for his own fortune, and walked away from people who would have given him his fortune.
Tortoise Bowl-On-The-Back and the Fox:
- This story is similar to the Fox and the Hare who race each other.
- But the tortoise is smart than the fox this time around.
The Shepherd Who Found Treasure:
- The green fly is the soul..
- an iron bridge, great abyss, white water
- jars of gold/jewels are used many times throughout a majority of the Persian stories
The Merchant and the Saffron:
- fortune man soon turned into a man with nothing.
- good fortune will return (luck will reawaken) if you are fortunate to others
Shah Abbas and the Poor Mother:
- I am so tired of men being the main character of stories.
- Well, I suppose this man is decent, but the others are not.
- I am glad that the woman and the children were able to be taken care of by the Shah while the Darogha and the Baker were killed for their deceit!
The Apparition of the Prophet Khizr:
- "I made such and such an arrangement with the King, and now what harm will it be if I, a single individual, die? You at any rate will love on in comfort." This does not happen often.
- Baker's are common theme in Persian stories
- I am refreshed that the King kept the fourth Wazir who spoke of mercy and generosity.
The Story of the Baker and the Grateful Fish:
- Those who you are generous to may show you kindness later in life.
- a Lot of these stories are about revenge and disguises. I will probably write my story based on the themes presented in the Persian stories.
Bibliography: Persian Tales, translated by D.L.R. Lorimer and E.O. Lorimer
Image: Fish by Jeremy Cai from UnSplash
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