Reading Notes: Turkish Folktales and Fairytales Part B
The story "Patience-stone and Patience-knife" opened up immediately getting right into the story. This young maiden stays at home working on embroidery, while her mother departs for work during the day. The first day, she was working by the window when a bird flies in and tells her her kismet, or fate, is with a dead person. Induced with fear, she tells her mother and her mother tells her to fasten the house. The second day, the house was fastened, and the bird still got in and told the maiden the same thing. Her mother was shocked and confused, so she said, "tomorrow, fasten the house and then creep into the cupboard and work by candlelight in there." On the third day, the maiden did as she was told and once again, the bird got in and told her the same thing.
Her mother was perturbed and decided to stay home with her daughter the next day and await the return of this creature... but the bird never came.
One day, the maiden went out with her friends and was playing in the meadow. On their way back home, the girls stopped for a refresher at a stream when all the sudden a magic wall grew out of no where, isolating the maiden from her friends.
The wall actually held answers for the young maiden and followed all the paths in order to get hers. The wall opened up into a large, luxurious palace with forty rooms. Each room held a new time of jewel, but the last had a handsome man in it and on his breast was a document which read: "Whoever for forty days will fan me and pray by me shall find her kismet." The maiden remembered what that the bird said.
At the beginning of part two, the maiden had done the forty days of pampering and when she was away, another girl arrived. The man woke up and saw the other girl, instead of the maiden.
As time passed, the maiden was in despair because she did not get was she deserved. One night, not knowing the man was watching her, she was reciting her story. The man realized that the maiden was his true wife all along and he saved her from committing suicide and they lived happily ever after.
Bibliography: The Patience-Stone and Patience-Knife (parts 1-2) from Turkish Fairy Tales Unit by Ignacz Kunos
Her mother was perturbed and decided to stay home with her daughter the next day and await the return of this creature... but the bird never came.
One day, the maiden went out with her friends and was playing in the meadow. On their way back home, the girls stopped for a refresher at a stream when all the sudden a magic wall grew out of no where, isolating the maiden from her friends.
The wall actually held answers for the young maiden and followed all the paths in order to get hers. The wall opened up into a large, luxurious palace with forty rooms. Each room held a new time of jewel, but the last had a handsome man in it and on his breast was a document which read: "Whoever for forty days will fan me and pray by me shall find her kismet." The maiden remembered what that the bird said.
At the beginning of part two, the maiden had done the forty days of pampering and when she was away, another girl arrived. The man woke up and saw the other girl, instead of the maiden.
As time passed, the maiden was in despair because she did not get was she deserved. One night, not knowing the man was watching her, she was reciting her story. The man realized that the maiden was his true wife all along and he saved her from committing suicide and they lived happily ever after.
Bibliography: The Patience-Stone and Patience-Knife (parts 1-2) from Turkish Fairy Tales Unit by Ignacz Kunos
about to kill herself from
part two of the story.
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