Image Information: Pomacanthus imperator (Emperor angelfish) juvenile Photo by Nick Hobgood. Source.
Bibliography: Excerpt from Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales by Ignacz Kunos. Source.
Story: Fear
A young man does not understand what fear is, so he decides to look for it. He finds robbers. The robbers are confused for why the young man is not afraid but they send him to other places, like a graveyard. The boy sees a living corpse hand but just smacks it away from his cake. The young man encounters a gathering to select a new Shah (lord). The pigeons that choose the Shah land on the young man's head. The young man and the Sultana eat food. The young man knows fear when a live bird flies out when one dish is opened. Moral of the story is that you don't look for fear, fear finds you?
Retelling Ideas:
Modern AU with one boy not knowing fear out of all of his friends. His friends try to get the boy to be afraid, using ideas from horror movies? The friends get busy trying to find new scare tactics. The boy is left alone. Maybe the boy's fear is isolation and as long as he has friends and family by him there isn't anything to be scared of?
Story: The Fish Peri
Man catches fish but it is so beautiful he doesn't want to kill it. His house gets tidied out from he is away fishing. The man secretly stays home. The beautiful fish turns into a beautiful woman, and the two get married? Noble wants to marry wife, but through wife's magic and the man following her direction, they live happily ever after.
Why did the two of them need to get married though?
Retelling Ideas: They do not get married. Maybe fish is happy to be alive and helps the man not starve to death (which was his original problem in needing a job).
A young man does not understand what fear is, so he decides to look for it. He finds robbers. The robbers are confused for why the young man is not afraid but they send him to other places, like a graveyard. The boy sees a living corpse hand but just smacks it away from his cake. The young man encounters a gathering to select a new Shah (lord). The pigeons that choose the Shah land on the young man's head. The young man and the Sultana eat food. The young man knows fear when a live bird flies out when one dish is opened. Moral of the story is that you don't look for fear, fear finds you?
Retelling Ideas:
Modern AU with one boy not knowing fear out of all of his friends. His friends try to get the boy to be afraid, using ideas from horror movies? The friends get busy trying to find new scare tactics. The boy is left alone. Maybe the boy's fear is isolation and as long as he has friends and family by him there isn't anything to be scared of?
Story: The Fish Peri
Man catches fish but it is so beautiful he doesn't want to kill it. His house gets tidied out from he is away fishing. The man secretly stays home. The beautiful fish turns into a beautiful woman, and the two get married? Noble wants to marry wife, but through wife's magic and the man following her direction, they live happily ever after.
Why did the two of them need to get married though?
Retelling Ideas: They do not get married. Maybe fish is happy to be alive and helps the man not starve to death (which was his original problem in needing a job).
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