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Turkish fairy tales and folk tales Translated from the Hungarian version by R. Nisbet Bain. Illustrated by Celia Levetus.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, Dover Publications [1969]Description: x, 275 p. illus. 22 cmISBN:
  • 0486223442
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PZ 8.1 .K974 Tu4

"Unabridged republication, with slight corrections, of the work originally published ... in 1896." Translation of T�or�ok n�pm�sek. Contents: The stag-prince.--The three orange-peris.--The rose-beauty.--Mad Mehmed.--The golden-haired children.--The horse-devil and the witch.--The cinder-youth.--The piece of liver.--The magic turban, the magic whip, and the magic carpet.--The wind-demon.--The crow-peri.--The forty princes and the seven-headed dragon.--The world's most beauteous damsel.--The padishah of the forty peris.--The serpent-peri and the magic mirror.--Stone-patience and knife-patience.--The ghost of the spring and the shrew.--The story of the half-man-riding-on-the-worse-half-of-a-lamehorse.--The enchanted hog.--Boy-beautiful, the golden apples, and the were-wolf.--Youth without age, and life without death.

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