A wolf and a lamb are standing in a wooded landscape with a goat behind them
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There was once a goat with four children. The mother goat
left to collect grass and instructed the children not to open the door for the
wolf. The mother said to only open the door for the mother who had a red hand.
The wolf overheard this and dyed his hand red. The wolf took 3 of the children
and the mother and the fourth child followed. The goat challenged the wolf to a
fight. The wolf went to the dentist to sharpen his teeth; however, the dentist
pulled them out instead and replaced them with cotton teeth. The goat went to
the knife-sharpener and got his horns sharpened. The goat defeated the wolf and
everyone went home.
There was a girl who scraped her leg. She needed ointment
but did not have any, so she took two eggs to trade for ointment. When she
returned she told her story to her aunt. She lost her eggs on the way to town
and decided to look for them. One turned into a hen and the other into a cock.
When he got to the cock, he asked for the cock and his share of the work the
cock had been doing. She received the cock and a share of rice. The cock was
carrying the rice and got a sore back. She rubbed a burnt walnut kernel on the
cock’s back. This caused a tree to grow out of the cock’s back. She then
planted melons underneath the tree. She grew a watermelon, and when she went to
cut it, she lost her knife. She then bought a little halim to eat. At the
bottom of the bowl was a hair. She pulled the hair out which was actually the
leading rope for camels. There were seven camels attached with her knife on the
last camel’s tail.
Bibliography:
Persian Tales, translated by D.L.R. Lorimer and E.O. Lorimer and illustrated by Hilda Roberts (1919). Link
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