(Wedding ceremony painting from Wikimedia Commons)
1. Wolf and the Goat
A goat warns her children not to open the door for the wolf, but the wolf tricks them and kidnaps three of them. The fourth one stays hidden and tells the mother goat what happened. She goes to the wolf's house and challenges him to a fight. In the end, the wolf is killed and she gets her children back.
2. The City of Nothing-In-The-World
2. The City of Nothing-In-The-World
A girl goes to the bazar with eggs her aunt gave her to try to trade them for cooling ointment for an injury. On the way, she loses the eggs. She goes back and tells her aunt a crazy story that defies logic and physics, but is so much fun!
3. Susku and Mushu
13. The Man Who Went to Wake His Luck
A man meets his brother's (personification of) Luck and asks where his is. He tells him where to find him and the man goes on a journey to wake up his Luck who is sleeping in a cave. On the way, several people have questions for him that they want him to have answered by the Luck. One of them is a wolf. He agrees and when he comes back with answers people try to reward him but he refuses. The Luck's advice for the wolf is to eat the first foolish man he sees, so the man is eaten.
A baker feeds the fish remnants of bread he can't sell. One day, amerchant comes to him and says he'll give him 100 tumens to work for him. He ends up tricking him and leaving him on a mountain to either get eaten by vultures or jump into the water and drown. He decides drowning would be better and jumps into the water, but the fish remember him and build a raft for him. He ends up using the same trick on the merchant to get revenge.
3. Susku and Mushu
A cute, then sad, then kind of freaky story. Starts out with two mice who decide to get married. One day, the husband mouse is cooking ash and the wife mouse gets blown into the pot and drowns. This leads to the husband mouse, a crow, and other animals/nature hurting themselves.
4. The Boy who Became a Bulbul
4. The Boy who Became a Bulbul
A boy's stepmother tells him and his father that they should have a competition to see who can collect the most wood. The winner chops offthe head of the loser. The father cheats and ends up winning. He chops off his son's head and gives it to his wife to put in a soup. The sister comes home and sees her brother's head in her soup and is distressed. The mulla gives her instructions that end up making her dead brother become a bulbul. As a bird, the brother gets revenge on the step-mother.
5. The Wolf-Aunt
5. The Wolf-Aunt
A poor man is trying to get money to take care of his wife and seven daughters when an elderly woman claiming to be his sister tells him she'll take care of them. One of the daughters discovers that the woman is actually a wolf. The wife tells her husband but he thinks she just doesn't like his "sister." The wife takes her daughters and leaves, and the man is eaten.
6. Nim-Tanak, or Half-Boy
6. Nim-Tanak, or Half-Boy
A boy is born to a king who only has half of a body. Becuase of his deformity, he is shunned. But he ends up saving his sister from a Div, which was a task that his other brothers (that were doted upon) could not do. The king then makes him his heir.
7. Muhammad Tirandaz, the Archer
7. Muhammad Tirandaz, the Archer
Muhammad kills two mice while he is working and his co-workers tell him she should become an archer instead of wasting his talent. He gets a bow and arrows and makes a motto for himself about killing two lions with one blow. While he's out hunting, a king's guard finds him and recruits him. By mistake, Muhammad ends up leading his team to victory in a battle and he is rewarded.
8. The Praying Baker
8. The Praying Baker
A king sees a baker praying in the bazar and wants to test him. He gives him his ring as a promise that he'll come back and pay for bread later, but has one of his men take it the next day. The king comes back and asks for his ring. The baker explains that it's gone missing but that he'll try to find it, and if he doesn't have it by the time 10 days have passed then the king can chop his head off. The king agrees and throws the ring into water. On the 10th day, the baker finds the ring in a fish he and his wife were about to eat.
9. The Sad Tale of the Mouse's Tail
9. The Sad Tale of the Mouse's Tail
A mouse has her tail torn off and asks for it to be sewn back on, but the cobbler wants something in return. In order to get what she wants, the next person wants something else. This continues in a chain with the mouse adding on to the explanation at every place she goes.
10. Fayiz and the Peri Wife
10. Fayiz and the Peri Wife
Fayiz gets married to a woman even though he is already married. He realizes his new wife is a peri (fairy). He has sons with her and a good life, but he misses his home. The peri wife says she will leave him and take their sons if he tells anyone what she is. Unfortunately, Fayiz can't help but tell his human wife and the peri wife leaves him.
A man smoked hemp and then fell asleep. He had a dream that a barber and two other men went on a journey to get the princess of china for him to marry. In the end, the men won her over but then fought over who would have her. The ending confuses me a bit, but I think the dreaming man accidentally hit the barber in real life and was awoken.
A man has a son and takes him to an akhund for his horoscope. The akhund says he will be torn apart by a wolf, so the father keeps his son underground away from everyone. Eventually, the son needs to take a wife and is married to his cousin. Once they're alone together, she turns into a wolf and kills him, and then turns back into her normal self.
13. The Man Who Went to Wake His Luck
A man meets his brother's (personification of) Luck and asks where his is. He tells him where to find him and the man goes on a journey to wake up his Luck who is sleeping in a cave. On the way, several people have questions for him that they want him to have answered by the Luck. One of them is a wolf. He agrees and when he comes back with answers people try to reward him but he refuses. The Luck's advice for the wolf is to eat the first foolish man he sees, so the man is eaten.
A fox and a tortoise get into a fight and decide to have a race. The tortoise gets his brother to help him cheat and pretends he won the race 28 seconds before the fox. The fox leaves the tortoise alone and is ashamed.
Two shepherds are working when one falls asleep. A green fly comes out of his nose and the one who is awake recognizes this as the sleeping man's soul. He wakes the man up and asks him what he dreamt. He is told of a dream in which the man finds treasure. The man who was told the dream gives the other his wages for the day and finds the treasure
that had been dreamt of.
that had been dreamt of.
A wealthy merchant buys saffron off of a man and pays in loads of jewels. Later, his luck goes back and he ends up with nothing. He wanders and finds the home of the merchant he bought the saffron off of. The other merchant supports him until his Luck wakes back up and then sends him off with money. The man uses the money to buy goods and sells them for 10x more and is wealthy again.
A king dresses as a derwish and finds a poor mother and her hungry children. He helps them by giving the mother a ring that she can take to the baker in exchange for bread. The baker accuses the mother of stealing the ring and takes her to the police. She has her ears cut off and goes home hungry again. The king manages to prove that she didn't steal the ring and gets onto the police chief.
A man who is poor and in debt goes to the king and makes him an offer that he can't fulfill. He tells the king that he will show him the prophet Khizr if he is given money. When he doesn't go through with it, the king asks his wazirs what he should do with the man. Three of them detail gory deaths, but a fourth says to give him a village and money because he has shown him Khizr. Then the man disappears.
19. The Story of the Baker and the Grateful Fish
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