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THE stories comprising this collection have been culled with my own hands in the many-hued garden of Turkish folklore. They have not been gathered from books, for Turkey is not a literary land, and no books of the kind exist; but, an attentive listener to "the storytellers" who form a peculiar feature of the social life of the Ottomans, I have jotted them down from time to time, and now present them, a choice bouquet, to the English reading public. The stories are such as may be heard daily in the purlieus of Stamboul, in the small rickety houses of that essentially Turkish quarter of Constantinople where around the tandir the native women relate them to their children and friends. These tales are by no means identical with, nor do they even resemble, those others that have been assimilated by the European consciousness from Indian sources and the "Arabian Nights." All real Turkish fairy tales are quite independent of those; rather are they related to the Western type so far as their contents and structure are concerned. Indeed, they may only be placed in the category of Oriental tales in that they are permeated with the cult of Islam and that their characters are Moslems. The kaftan encircling their bodies, the turban on their heads, and the slippers on their feet, all proclaim their Eastern origin. Their heroic deeds, their struggles and triumphs, are mostly such as may be found in the folklore of any European people. It is but natural that pagan superstition, inseparable from the ignorant, should be always cropping up in these stories. Like all real folklore they are not for children, though it is the children who are most strongly attracted by them, and after the children the women. They are mostly woven from the webs of fancy in that delectable realm, Fairyland; since it is there that everything wonderful happens, the dramatis person being as a rule supernatural beings.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1901 Edition.

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1901. These stories were collected from the mouths of the Turkish peasantry by the Hungarian savant Dr. Ignatius Kunos, during his travels through Anatolia, and published for the first time in 1889. Sample Contents: The Stag Prince; The Three Orange Peris; The Rose Beauty; Mad Mehmed; Golden Haired Children; Cinder Youth; The Magic Turban; Wind Demon; Worlds's Most Beautiful Damsel; The Ghost of the Spring and the Shrew; Romanian Fairy Tales: The Story of the Half-man Riding on the Worse Half of a Lame Horse; The Enchanted Hog; Boy Beautiful; Youth Without Age, and Life Without Death.

1901. These stories were collected from the mouths of the Turkish peasantry by the Hungarian savant Dr. Ignatius Kunos, during his travels through Anatolia, and published for the first time in 1889. Sample Contents: The Stag Prince; The Three Orange Peris; The Rose Beauty; Mad Mehmed; Golden Haired Children; Cinder Youth; The Magic Turban; Wind Demon; Worlds's Most Beautiful Damsel; The Ghost of the Spring and the Shrew; Romanian Fairy Tales: The Story of the Half-man Riding on the Worse Half of a Lame Horse; The Enchanted Hog; Boy Beautiful; Youth Without Age, and Life Without Death.

1901. These stories were collected from the mouths of the Turkish peasantry by the Hungarian savant Dr. Ignatius Kunos, during his travels through Anatolia, and published for the first time in 1889. Sample Contents: The Stag Prince; The Three Orange Peris; The Rose Beauty; Mad Mehmed; Golden Haired Children; Cinder Youth; The Magic Turban; Wind Demon; Worlds's Most Beautiful Damsel; The Ghost of the Spring and the Shrew; Romanian Fairy Tales: The Story of the Half-man Riding on the Worse Half of a Lame Horse; The Enchanted Hog; Boy Beautiful; Youth Without Age, and Life Without Death.

1901. These stories were collected from the mouths of the Turkish peasantry by the Hungarian savant Dr. Ignatius Kunos, during his travels through Anatolia, and published for the first time in 1889. Sample Contents: The Stag Prince; The Three Orange Peris; The Rose Beauty; Mad Mehmed; Golden Haired Children; Cinder Youth; The Magic Turban; Wind Demon; Worlds_s Most Beautiful Damsel; The Ghost of the Spring and the Shrew; Romanian Fairy Tales: The Story of the Half-man Riding on the Worse Half of a Lame Horse; The Enchanted Hog; Boy Beautiful; Youth Without Age, and Life Without Death.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Kisazsia Torok Dialektusairol. Szekfoglalo ertekezes; ertekezesek A Nyelv- es Szeptudomanyok Koreből; Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia Ignacz Kunos kiadja a Mayar Tudomanyos Akademia, 1896 Literary Criticism; Middle Eastern; Literary Criticism / Middle Eastern; Turkish literature

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