Thursday, September 19, 2019

Reading Notes: Persian Stories Part B


Fayiz and the Peri Wife
This is a story about a man who falls in love with a woman that is a peri. This woman finds him one day and brings him home with her. She says that she will marry him and that he shall be incredibly happy. The only way that this happiness will end is if he tells her secret to anyone. Well the man agrees, and they start a family together. One day the man is yearning for his home and wants to go back and see his other family. The woman agrees and allows him to go home but reminds him of the secret that he promised to keep. She also threatens that she will take their sons and that he shall never see them again if he releases her secret. The man agrees and heads home to his human wife and children. Upon his arrival they are ecstatic that he is there but at the same time curious as to where he has been. The wife threatens to kill herself if he does not tell her where he has been all this time. He refuses this threat and tells her that he can’t tell her. She is very displeased by that and increases the stakes of the threat by threating to release her sons. She will abandon them to live a life without her and him. To this the man is torn apart inside and has no choice but to tell her. He tells his wife and then hears a voice telling him that he broke his promise and he shall never see his other wife or his children from her again. The man went back to the place he originally met her, and she was gone. He would continue to return to that place over and over never to see his wife or children again.


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