Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Reading Notes: Ziya'al-Din Nakhshabi's Tales of a Parrot Part A

The story Tutinameh or Tales of a Parrot by Ziya'al-Din Nakhshabi is about a parrot that prince, Miemun, purchased. The parrot tells stories to the prince's wife, Khojisteh, to keep her from committing adultery and cheating on her husband with another prince. Some of the individual stories in the reading are stories that the parrot tells Khojisteh. For my story this week, I am thinking about telling either my own versions of the stories that the parrot tells, or change the ending of them a little bit. The parrot is also extremely smart and can foresee the future. In my story this week, I also might incorporate the parrot's ability to see the future.
 
"Khojisteh and the parrot" by Mir Sayyid Ali and Abdus Samad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutinama#mediaviewer/File:Indischer_Maler_um_1580_001.jpg

Ziya'al-Din Nakhshabi's Tales of a Parrot. http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/06/myth-folklore-unit-tutinameh-or-tales.html

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