Reading Notes: Turkish, Part B

 

Girl embroidering. Source: Myth & Folklore UN-Textbook

NOTES:

• Patience-Stone and Patience-Knife
• Story centers around a daughter and her mother. 
• The story is set in their house, meadows, and lastly a palace. 
• When the daughter is home alone a bird keeps showing up and scaring her
• The mom keeps having the daughter lock doors and hides from them but it does not help
• The mother makes them stay inside until the girls come to ask the daughter to come out. 
• When in the meadows a wall appears around the daughter. 
• Mother waits by the wall 
• a door appears, the daughter goes through and there is a palace. 
• Uses keys to open doors and finds a Bey who said that whoever fans and prays by him shall find her kismet. 
• The daughter was as a cook for a while, the Bey gave her a yellow patience-stone and a brown patience-knife
• Told the stone her life story, what the bird told her, and describes what she and her mom went through
• Went to stab herself but the Bey stopped her. 
• Mother was called there and they lived happily.

This story is to show how fate plays in one's life. 

Bibliography: Turkish Fairy Tales by Ignacsz Kunos