169 World Children Stories The collection
PATRICK HEALY Volume I
Š PATRICK HEALY, 2013 Published by Stergiou Limited ISBN: 978-1-910370-22-3 (Stergiou Limited-Assigned) ISBN: 978-1494488048 (CreateSpace-Assigned) December 2013
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COPYRIGHT 169 World Children Stories - Volume I The Collection Retold by © PATRICK HEALY, 2013-2014 Cover image: © Triggerjoy | Dreamstime.com Published by Stergiou Limited, December 2013 ISBN: 978-1-910370-22-3 (Stergiou Limited-Assigned) ISBN: 978-1494488048 (CreateSpace-Assigned) ePub- ISBN: 978-1-910370-23-0 Mobi-ISBN: 978-1-910370-24-7 PDF-ISBN: 978-1-910370-25-4 Series: 417 World Children Stories Parent ISBN: 978-1-910370-21-6 Available only in eBook format VOLUΜΕ I: 169 Stories Arabian Nights, Filipino Tales, Czech Tales, Grimm’s Fairy Tales VOLUΜΕ II: 125 Stories Indian Tales, Japanese Tales, Native American Myths, Norse Myths, Polish Tales ISBN: 978-0-9928282-0-2 (Stergiou Limited-Assigned) ISBN: 978-1500192778 (CreateSpace-Assigned) ePub- ISBN: 978-0-9928282-5-7 Mobi-ISBN: 978-0-9928282-6-4 PDF-ISBN: 978-0-9928282-7-1 VOLUΜΕ III: 123 stories Romanian Tales, Russian Tales, The Adventure of Odysseus, The Golden Fleece, Turkish Tales ISBN: 978-0-9928282-8-8 ePub- ISBN: 978-0-9928282-9-5 Mobi-ISBN: 978-1-910370-26-1 PDF-ISBN: 978-1-910370-27-8 STERGIOU LIMITED Suite A, 6 Honduras Street, London EC1Y 0TH, United Kingdom Tel.: +44 (0) 20 7504 1325, Fax: +44 (0) 20 76920609 Email: publications@stergioultd.com Web: http://stergioultd.com Copyright and monitoring The intellectual property rights of this book are owned by the Author. The contents of this book are protected by international copyright laws and other intellectual property rights. All products, services and company names and logos mentioned in our book are the trademarks, service marks or trading names of their respective owners, including us. You may not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit, sell or distribute, by any means or in any manner, any material or information on or downloaded from our website including but not limited to text, graphics, video, messages, code and/or software without our prior written consent, except where expressly invited to do so, for example, in order to complete any test or questionnaire.
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Dedicated
to the children of the world!
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Contents Arabian Nights 1. The Arabian Nights 10 2. The Story of the Merchant and the Genie 13 3. The Story of the Fisherman 21 4. The Story of the Fisherman 25 5. The Story of the Vizier Who Was Punished 26 6. The Story of the Young King of the Black Isles 33 7. The Story of the Three Monks 36 8. The Story of the First Monk, Son of a King 43 9. The Story of the Second Monk, Son of a King 47 10. The Story of the Envious Man and of Him Who Was Envied 11. The Story of the Third Monk, Son of a King 61 12. The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor 69 13. First Voyage 71 14. Second Voyage 74 15. Third Voyage 78 16. Fourth Voyage 82 17. Fifth Voyage 87 18. Sixth Voyage 90 19. Seventh and Last Voyage 94 20. The Little Hunchback 98 21. The Story of the Barber’s Fifth Brother 104 22. The Story of the Barber’s Sixth Brother 110 23. The Adventures of Prince Camaralzaman and the Princess Badoura 113 24. Noureddin and the Fair Persian 140 25. Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp 155 26. The Adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, Caliph of Bagdad 167 27. The Story of the Blind Baba-Abdalla 169 28. The Story of Sidi-Nouman 174 29. The Story of Ali Cogia, Merchant of Baghdad 182 4
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30. The Enchanted Horse 31. The Enchanted Horse
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Czech Tales 1. Longshanks, Girth, And Keen 225 2. The Three Golden Hairs 234 3. The Flaming Horse 242 4. The Three Lemons 248 5. Prince Bayaya 258 6. Katcha and the Devil 268 7. The Wedding Gifts 274 8. Grandfather’s Eyes 280 9. Rattle-Rattle-Rattle and Chink-Chink-Chink 10. The Bird with the Golden Gizzard 289 11. The Wood Maiden 292 12. The Golden Spinning Wheel 297 13. The Golden Godmother 310 14. The Golden Duck 315
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12. The Tree with the Agate Beads 357 13. The Striped Blanket 358 14. The Alan and the Hunters 358 15. Man and the Alan 360 16. Sogsogot 360 17. The Mistaken Gifts 362 18. The Boy who Became a Stone 362 19. The Turtle and the Lizard 363 20. The Man with the Coconuts 364 21. The Buffalo and the Shell 365 22. The Alligator’s Fruit 365 23. Dogedog 366 25. The Flood Story 369 26. Lumawig on Earth 370 27. How the First Head was Taken 373 28. The Serpent Eagle 374 29. The Tattooed Men 375 30. Tilin, The Rice Bird 375 31. How the Moon and the Stars Came to Be 376 32. The Flood Story 377 33. Magbangal 377 34. How Children Became Monkeys 379 35. Bulanawan and Aguio 379 36. Origin 380 37. Lumabet 381 38. The Story of the Creation 383 39. In the Beginning 384 40. The Children of the Limokon 385 42. The Widow’s Son 386 43. Mythology of Mindanao 389 44. The Story of Bantugan 392 45. The Monkey and the Turtle 397 46. The Poor Fisherman and His Wife 398 47. The President who had Horns 399 49. The White Squash 402 6
50. The Creation Story 403 51. The Story of Benito 404 52. The Adventures of Juan 408 53. Juan Gathers Guavas 410 54. The Sun and the Moon 410 55. The First Monkey 411 56. The Virtue of the Coconut 411 57. Mansumandig 412 58. Why Dogs Wag their Tails 415 59. The Hawk and the Hen 416 61. The Battle of the Crabs 417
~.~ Grimm’s Fairy Tales 1. Hans In Luck 419 2. Jorinda And Jorindel 422 3. The Travelling Musicians 425 4. Old Sultan 427 5. The Straw, The Coal, And The Bean 429 6. Briar Rose 430 7. The Dog And The Sparrow 432 8. The Twelve Dancing Princesses 435 9. The Fisherman And His Wife 438 10. The Willow-Wren And The Bear 441 11. The Frog-Prince 443 12. Cat And Mouse In Partnership 445 13. The Goose-Girl 447 15. Rapunzel 454 16. Fundevogel 457 17. Hansel And Gretel 458 18. The Brave Little Tailor 463 19. The Mouse, The Bird, And The Sausage
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20. Mother Holle 470 21. Little Red-Cap [Little Red Riding Hood] 473 22. The Robber Bridegroom 476 23. Tom Thumb 479 24. Rumpelstiltskin 483 25. Clever Gretel 485 26. The Old Man And His Grandson 487 27. The Little Peasant 488 28. Frederick And Catherine 491 29. Sweetheart Roland 495 30. Snowdrop 497
~.~ Grimm’s Fairy Tales 2 1. The Pink Carnation 502 2. Clever Elsie 505 3. The Miser In The Bush 507 4. Ashputtel 509 5. The White Snake 514 6. The Wolf And The Seven Little Kids 517 7. The Queen Bee 519 8. The Elves And The Shoemaker 520 10. The Turnip 528 11. Clever Hans 531 12. The Three Languages 533 13. The Fox And The Cat 534 14. The Four Clever Brothers 535 15. Lily And The Lion 538 16. The Fox And The Horse 542 17. The Blue Light 543 18. The Raven 546 19. The Golden Goose 550 8
20. The Water Of Life 554 21. The Twelve Huntsmen 559 22. The King Of The Golden Mountain 561 23. Doctor Knowall 565 24. The Seven Ravens 566 25. The Wedding Of Mrs Fox 568 26. The Salad 570 27. The Youth Who Wanted To Learn What Fear Was 574 28. King Grisly-Beard 580 29. Iron Hans 583 30. Snow-White And Rose-Red 588 31. The Golden Bird 593
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Arabian Nights
1. The Arabian Nights
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he Sultan Schahriar had a wife whom he loved more than all the world, and his greatest happiness was to surround her with splendour, and to give her the finest dresses and the most beautiful jewels. It was therefore with the deepest shame and sorrow that he accidentally discovered, after several years, that she had deceived him completely, and her whole behaviour turned out to have been so bad, that he felt he had to carry out the law of the land, and order the grand-vizier to put her to death. He was so upset that he almost went mad, and he declared that he was quite sure that all women were as wicked as the queen, if you could only find them out, and that the fewer the world contained the better. So every evening he married a new wife and had her strangled the following morning in front of the grand-vizier, whose duty it was to provide these unhappy brides for the Sultan. The poor man fulfilled his task with reluctance, but there was no escape, and every day saw a girl married and a wife dead. This behavior caused the greatest horror in the town, where nothing was heard but cries. In one house was a father weeping for the loss of his daughter, in another perhaps a mother trembling for the fate of her child and instead of the blessings that had formerly been heaped on the Sultan’s head, the air was now full of curses. The grand-vizier himself was the father of two daughters, of whom the elder was called Scheherazade, and the younger Dinarzade. Dinarzade had no particular gifts to distinguish her from other girls, but her sister was clever and courageous in the highest degree. Her father had given her the best teachers in philosophy, medicine, history and the fine arts, and besides all this, her beauty excelled that of any girl in the kingdom of Persia. One day, when the grand-vizier was talking to his eldest daughter, who was his delight and pride, Scheherazade said to him, “Father, I have a favour to ask of you. Will you grant it to me?” “I can refuse you nothing,” he replied, “that is just and reasonable.” “Then listen,” said Scheherazade. “I am determined to stop this barbarous practice of the
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Sultan’s, and to save the girls and mothers from the awful fate that hangs over them.” “It would be an excellent thing to do,” replied the grand-vizier, “but how do you propose to accomplish it?” “My father,” answered Scheherazade, “it is you who have to provide the Sultan daily with a fresh wife, and I beg you, to allow the honour to fall upon me.” “Have you lost your senses?” cried the grand-vizier, starting back in horror. “What has put such a thing into your head? You ought to know by this time what it means to be the sultan’s bride!” “Yes, my father, I know it well,” she replied, “and I am not afraid to think of it. If I fail, my death will be a glorious one, and if I succeed I shall have done a great service to my country.” “It is of no use,” said the grand-vizier, “I shall never agree. If the Sultan was to order me to plunge a dagger in your heart, I should have to obey. What a task for a father! Ah, if you do not fear death, fear at any rate the grief you would cause me.” “Once again, my father,” said Scheherazade, “Will you grant me what I ask?” “What, are you still so obstinate?” exclaimed the grand-vizier. “Why are you so determined to die?” But the daughter absolutely refused to listen to her father’s words, and at last, in despair, the grand-vizier had to agree, and went sadly to the palace to tell the Sultan that the following evening he would bring him Scheherazade. The Sultan received this news with the greatest astonishment. “How have you made up your mind,” he asked, “to sacrifice your own daughter to me?” “Sire,” answered the grand-vizier, “it is her own wish. Even the sad fate that awaits her could not hold her back.” “Let there be no mistake, vizier,” said the Sultan. “Remember you will have to take her life yourself. If you refuse, I swear that you will lose your head instead.” “Sire,” replied the vizier. “Whatever the cost, I will obey you. Though a father, I am also your subject.” So the Sultan told the grand-vizier he might bring his daughter as soon as he liked. The vizier took back this news to Scheherazade, who received it as if it had been the most 11
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pleasant thing in the world. She thanked her father warmly for agreeing to her wishes, and, seeing him still bowed down with grief, told him that she hoped he would never regret having allowed her to marry the Sultan. Then she went to prepare herself for the marriage, and begged that her sister Dinarzade should be sent for to speak to her. When they were alone, Scheherazade said to her, “My dear sister, I want your help in a very important affair. My father is going to take me to the palace to celebrate my marriage with the Sultan. When his Highness receives me, I shall beg him, as a last favour, to let you sleep in our room, so that I may have your company during the last night I am alive. If, as I hope, he grants me my wish, be sure that you wake me an hour before the dawn, and speak to me in these words, ‘My sister, if you are not asleep, I beg you, before the sun rises, to tell me one of your charming stories.’ Then I shall begin, and I hope by this means to save the people from the terror that hangs over them.” Dinarzade replied that she would do with pleasure what her sister wished. When the usual hour arrived the grand-vizier took Scheherazade to the palace, and left her alone with the Sultan, who told her to raise her veil and was amazed at her beauty. But seeing her eyes full of tears, he asked what the matter was. “Sire,” replied Scheherazade, “I have a sister who loves me as tenderly as I love her. Grant me the favour of allowing her to sleep this night in the same room, as it is the last time we shall be together.” Schahriar agreed to Scheherazade’s request and Dinarzade was sent for. An hour before daybreak Dinarzade awoke, and exclaimed, as she had promised, “My dear sister, if you are not asleep, tell me, before the sun rises, one of your charming stories. It is the last time that I shall have the pleasure of hearing you.” Scheherazade did not answer her sister, but turned to the Sultan. “Will your highness allow me to do as my sister asks?” said she. “Willingly,” he answered. So Scheherazade began.
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2. The Story of the Merchant and the Genie
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here was once upon a time a merchant who possessed great wealth, in land and
merchandise, as well as in money. He had to from time to time, to take journeys for his business. One day, having to go a long way from home, he mounted his horse, taking with him a small bag in which he had put a few biscuits and dates, because he had to pass through the desert where there was no food. He arrived without any problems, and, having finished his business, set out on his return. On the fourth day of his journey, the heat of the sun being very great, he turned off the road to rest under some trees. He found at the foot of a large walnut tree a spring of clear and running water. He dismounted, tied his horse to a branch of the tree, and sat by the spring, after having taken from his bag some of his dates and biscuits. When he had finished this simple meal he washed his face and hands in the spring. When he was doing this he saw an enormous genie, white with rage, coming towards him, with a scimitar in his hand. “Arise,” he cried in a terrible voice, “and let me kill you as you have killed my son!” As he uttered these words he gave a frightful yell. The merchant, much terrified at the hideous face of the monster answered him tremblingly, “Alas, good sir, what can I have done to you to deserve death?” “I shall kill you,” repeated the genie, “as you have killed my son.” “But,” said the merchant, “how can I have killed your son? I do not know him, and I have never even seen him.” “When you arrived here did you not sit down on the ground?” asked the genie, “and did you not take some dates from your bag, and while eating them did not you throw the seeds away?” “Yes,” said the merchant, “I certainly did so.” “Then,” said the genie, “I tell you, you have killed my son, for while you were throwing away the seeds, my son was passing by, and one of them struck him in the eye and killed him. So I shall kill you.” “Ah, sir, forgive me!” cried the merchant. “I will have no mercy on you,” answered the genie.
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“But I killed your son quite accidentally, so I beg you to spare my life.” “No,” said the genie, “I shall kill you as you killed my son,” and so saying, he seized the merchant by the arm, threw him on the ground, and lifted his scimitar to cut off his head. The merchant, protesting his innocence, cried for his wife and children, and tried pitifully to escape his fate. The genie, with his raised scimitar, waited till he had finished, but was not in the least moved. Scheherazade, at this point, seeing that it was day, and knowing that the Sultan always rose very early to attend the council, stopped speaking. “Indeed, sister,” said Dinarzade, “this is a wonderful story.” “The rest is still more wonderful,” replied Scheherazade, “and you would say so, if the sultan would allow me to live another day, and would allow me to tell it to you the next night.” Schahriar, who had been listening to Scheherazade with pleasure, said to himself, “I will wait till tomorrow. I can always have her killed when I have heard the end of her story.” All this time the grand-vizier was in a terrible state of anxiety. But he was much delighted when he saw the Sultan enter the council chamber without giving the terrible command that he was expecting. The next morning, before sunrise, Dinarzade said to her sister, “Dear sister, if you are awake please go on with your story.” The Sultan did not wait for Scheherazade to ask. “Finish,” said he, “the story of the genie and the merchant. I am curious to hear the end.” So Scheherazade went on with the story. This happened every morning. The Sultana told a story and the Sultan let her live to finish it. When the merchant saw that the genie was determined to cut off his head, he said, “One word more, I beg you. Give me just a short time to go home and tell my wife and children farewell. When I have done this I will come back here, and you shall kill me.” “But,” said the genie, “if I give you the time you ask for, I am afraid that you will not come back.” “I give you my word of honour,” answered the merchant, “that I will come back without fail.” “How long do you require?” asked the genius. 14
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“I ask you for a year,” replied the merchant. “I promise you that, twelve months from tomorrow, I shall be waiting under these trees to give myself up to you.” On this the genie left him near the spring and disappeared. The merchant, having recovered from his fright, mounted his horse and went on his way. When he arrived home his wife and children received him with the greatest joy. But instead of embracing them he began to weep so bitterly that they soon guessed that something terrible had happened. “Tell us,” said his wife, “what has happened.” “Alas!” answered her husband, “I have only a year to live.” Then he told them what had happened between him and the genie, and how he had given his word to return at the end of a year to be killed. When they heard this sad news they were in despair, and wept much. The next day the merchant began to settle his affairs, and first of all to pay his debts. He gave presents to his friends, and money to the poor. He set his slaves free, and provided for his wife and children. The year soon passed, and he had to depart. When he tried to say goodbye he was quite overcome with grief. At length he reached the place where he had first seen the genie. He dismounted, and sat down at the edge of the spring, where he awaited the genie. While he was waiting an old man leading a deer came towards him. They greeted one another, and then the old man said to him, “May I ask, brother, what brought you to this deserted place, where there are so many evil genies about? To see these beautiful trees one would imagine people live here, but it is a dangerous place to stop long in.” The merchant told the old man why he had to come there. He listened in astonishment. “This is a most marvelous story. I should like to see when you meet with the genie.” So saying, he sat down by the merchant. While they were talking another old man came up, followed by two black dogs. He greeted them, and asked what they were doing in this place. The old man who was leading the deer told him the adventure of the merchant and the genie. The second old man also decided to stay there to see what would happen. He sat down by the others, and was talking, when a third old man arrived. He asked why the merchant who was with them looked so sad. They told him the story, and he also decided to see what would happen between the genie and the
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