The concept of this story is really interesting. Though fear is something natural, this story presumes that it is learned by showing how a young person goes on adventures in search of fear, but is able to not even notice situations where others would have been shaken with fear.
I wonder what else could be done in this way? A lot of things are taught, so it would have to be something that we just feel naturally.
Hm! I wonder what so significant about that fear that caused him to become afraid. Maybe it was more just surprise than actual fear, because I assume that the other things that happened to him (like the hand in the cemetery) were also shocking.
The Wizard-Dervish
Woops, guess Pops didn't tell his son about the Dervish! That must be pretty startling.
Interesting! This Dervish guy has some strange practices.
"...who was a witch." uh oh...
I wonder how hard it was to follow the instructions of the maidens. Clearly, this has been done before, otherwise how would she know what the son needed to answer in order to earn one of the daughter's hands in marriage?
How strange! I guess this is the kind of arduous test you need to pass in order to marry into a magical family.
A dervish
The Fish-Peri
Mahomet - that's the name of my hometown! I wonder how the French name for Mohammed got in this story...
Typical power-hungry king trying to take from his subjects...
That ending was weird.
The Crow-Peri
A lot of stories have similar events (father dies - son is born without knowing his occupation), (three birds - turn into maidens), (40 days to accomplish a task), etc.
The Parishah is also very demanding of the boy. A lot of these stories center around young people who are able to do great or seemingly diffucult tasks. Story: society ruled by adults, but have children that have supernatural abilities who do all of these ridiculous tasks for their parents / elders.
Huh, I didn't think that magical creatures could get sick.
Bibliography: Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales by Ignacz Kunos. Source.
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