Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Reading Notes: Persian Stories Part A


The Boy Who Became a Bulbul
This story is about a boy who becomes a Bulbul and goes around gathering things so that he might get revenge for his death. It all started when his stepmother suggested that the boy and father made a bet. Whoever gathered more thorn bushels would win and cut the head off the other. It just so happens that the father cheated his son out of death by taking his sons bushels and adding them to his own. He then cut off his head and brought it in to his wife, who then put it in a pot to cook. His sister thankfully came back from the mulla and was instructed to take all the brothers’ bones and wash them with rose water. Then she was instructed to bury them in the garden and say a prayer over them every Friday eve. The sister does this, and her brother comes back in the form of a bulbul and repeats a chant to people. When people here this chant that he does they obey what he suggests they do. He goes and collects needles from the needle maker and then kills his stepmother with them by having her open her mouth and he sticks them in while her mouth is open, and her eyes are closed. He then goes to the sugar stick makers and gets a sugar stick. He returns to his sister and sings his chant getting her to open her mouth. He then proceeds to stick the sugar stick in her mouth for her to eat. No repercussions befall the father however. The boy in the form of a bird flies away and never goes home again.

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