November 18, 2024 • 45 mins
On this episode we will hear about magical conceptions, handsome princes, wizards, witches, dove women, shapeshifting, distant lands, skull castles, and enchanted nightingales!
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Hello, welcome to Esoterica and Nonsense, a podcast where we
discuss myths, legends, folk tales, fairy tales, supernatural
phenomenon and religions from around the world.
I am your host Annabelle, and today is a rainy day.
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We are going to hear stories from Turkey.
I'm very excited. Turkey is a place that I've
always wanted to go, and it is one of the most culturally rich
center points of the ancient world.
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At one point, it was a part of the Persian Empire, the Roman
Empire and the Ottoman Empire. And it is this beautiful little
bridge that connects what we consider the Middle East to
Western Europe. And I just think it's such a
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cool, flippin little piece of land.
I've always wanted to go. I want a Turkish rug.
I want to have Turkish delight. I want to eat Turkish dishes.
I want to just live the whole fantasy.
So let's hear some magical stories from from Turkey.
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Turkey. I don't I don't know how to say
it properly. I'm just having fun.
OK, so story number one is called the wizard dervish.
A long time ago lived a potty sha.
A potty sha is like a like a Shaw, like a like a principal
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ruler, an emperor, if you will. So a long time ago lived a potty
Shaw who had no son as he was taking a walk with his LA la one
day. What's a La La?
We need to Google this La La Turkey a La La is a tutor or a
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statesman. Oh very good to know you learn
something everyday. OK.
As he was taking a walk with hisLA La one day, they came to a
well near which they stopped to wish.
A dervish suddenly appeared and cried.
Oh hail my Patisha. A dervish, just in case if you
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don't know, is like a religious man.
You may have heard the term likethe whirl whirling dervish.
Oh, we should do an episode on dervishes.
But it's a sect of I think it's their own religion, right?
We might have to Google this too.
Oh no, no, no. So dervish is a, is a Suf, a
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Sufi sect of Islam. Oh, that's so interesting.
And they're, they're priests like men just to just to keep it
simple. OK, so the dervish cries.
Oh, hail my padishah. At this the Padishah answered.
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If you know that I am the Padishah, then can you tell me
the cause of my sorrow? The dervish drew an apple from
his breast and said, Your sorrowis that you have no son.
Take this apple, eat half yourself and give the other half
to your wife. Then in due time you shall have
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a son. He shall belong to you till his
20th year afterwards, and then he shall be mine.
Oh shit, this is giving Rumpelstiltskin baby.
I don't know dude, Maybe you should just conceive on your own
because this guy is going to take your son and then you won't
have an heir. No, no, no.
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But he's probably going to do it.
With these words, the dervish vanished the potty shop, went
home to his palace, cut the apple and sharing it with his
wife according to the instructions of the dervish.
I knew he was going to do it. I knew he was.
Everyone wants a son when you are a ruler because you want an
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heir. The thing is, you're not going
to have an heir when the Rumpelstiltskin dervish comes
back and snatches him. What are you thinking, bro?
You're just going to have to keep trying.
Sometime later, as the wizard dervish had promised, the little
Prince came to the palace and the Padishah, in his great joy,
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ordered the happy event to be celebrated throughout his
dominions. When the boy was five years old,
a tutor was appointed to teach him reading and writing.
In his 13th year he began to take walks and go on journeys,
and soon afterwards he took partin hunting excursions as well.
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When he was nearing his 20th year, his father began to think
of finding him a wife. A suitable maiden being
discovered, the young couple were betrothed, but on the very
day of the wedding, when all theguests had assembled in
readiness for the ceremony, the dervish came and carried off the
bridegroom to the foot of a mountain.
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Yeah, dude, like what were you expecting?
He literally told you the deal from day one.
What do you like? This is so crazy bro.
He uttered the words remain in peace and he went away in great
fear. The young Prince looked around
him, but saw nothing more alarming than 3 white doves
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flying towards the river on whose bank he was resting.
As they alighted, they were transformed into three beautiful
maidens who entered the water tobathe.
Presently 2 of them came out andresumed their bird forms and
flew away. As the third maiden left the
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water, she caught sight of the young Prince.
Much astonished at his presence,she inquired how he had come
there. A dervish carried me.
Hit her. He answered, whereon the girl
rejoined. That dervish is my father.
When he comes he will take you by your hair, and hang you on
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that tree, and flog you with a whip.
Dost know he will ask, and the question you must answer I know
not. Having given this advice, the
girl transforming herself into awhite dove flew away quickly.
Wow, she sounds hot. Are you kidding me?
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A girl who transforms into dove form like she sounds super hot?
Presently, the young Prince saw the dervish approaching with a
whip in his hand. He hung the youth by his hair to
a tree, flogged him soundly, andasked, Dost no dost know what,
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bro? When the young Prince answered,
I know not, The dervish went away for three days in
succession. The youth was beaten black and
blue. But when the dervish had
satisfied himself that his victim understood nothing at
all, he set him free. Did a youth and a maiden pass
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this way? She inquired what?
OK, OK, I was confused but the story explains itself.
When the youth was out walking one day, the dove came to him
and said take this bird and hideit.
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When my father asked which of these three maidens you desire,
point to me. If, however, you do not
recognize me, produce the bird and answer.
I desire the maiden to whom thisbird shall fly.
Wow, Shorty's really looking outfor him, he's so lucky.
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Wow, she has a crush. The next day the dervish brought
him, brought with him the three maidens, and asked the youth
which of them pleased him best. The youth accordingly produced
the bird, and said that he desired to whom the bird should
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fly. The bird was set free and
alighted on the maiden who had instructed him.
She was given in marriage to theyouth, but without the consent
of her mother, who was a witch. Oh yeah, now the story is
getting interesting. A dervish, a magical wizard
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dervish and a witch have 3 hot daughters who are dove girls.
Like sign me up dude. While the youth and the maiden
were walking together, they saw the mother coming after them.
The maiden giving the youth a knock changed him into a large
garden and by another knock changed herself into a gardener.
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When the woman came up, she inquired, gardener, did not a
maiden and a youth pass this way?
The gardener answered, My red turnips are not yet ripe, they
are still small, the witch retorted, My dear gardener, I
did not ask about your turnips, but about a youth and a maiden.
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But the gardener only replied, Ihave set no spinach, It will not
be up for a month or two. She seeing she was not
understood, the woman turned andwent away.
When the woman was no longer insight, the gardener knocked
the garden, which became the young man again, and she knocked
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herself and became once more a maiden.
They now walked on, the woman turning back and seeing them
together, hasten to overtake them.
The maiden also turned round, and saw her mother hurrying
after them quickly. She gave the youth a knock, and
turned him into an oven, and knocked herself, and became a
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Baker. The mother came up and asked
Baker, have not a youth and a maiden pass this way?
The bread is not yet baked. I have just put it in.
Come again in half an hour, thenyou may have some, was the
answer. At this the woman said, I did
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not ask you for bread. I inquired whether a youth and a
maiden had passed this way. The reply was as little to the
point as before. Wait a while.
When the bread is ready we will eat.
When the woman saw she was not understood, she went away again.
As soon as the coast was clear, the Baker knocked the oven,
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which became the young man, and she knocked herself back into
the form of a maiden, and they pursued their way.
Looking back once more, the woman again saw the youth and
the maiden. She now realized that the oven
and the Baker were the runaways in disguise, and hurried after
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them. Seeing that her mother was
coming, the maiden again knockedthe youth and changed him into a
pond. Herself she changed into a duck,
swimming upon the water. When the woman arrived at the
pond, she ran to and fro, seeking a place when she could
reach the opposite side. At length, seeing she could go
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no further, no further, she turned round and went home
again. The danger over the duck struck
the pond and changed it into theyouth, and she transformed
herself into the maiden as before, upon which they resumed
their journey. Wandering onward, they came at
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length to the birth place of theyouth, where they entered an
inn. Then, said he to the maiden,
Remain here while I fetch a carriage and take you away.
On the road he encountered the dervish, who seized him and
transported him immediately to his father's palace, and set him
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down in the Great Hall, where the wedding guests were still
waiting. The Prince looked round at all
of them and rubbed his eyes. Had he been dreaming?
What can it all mean? He said to himself.
Meanwhile the maiden at the inn,seeing the youth had not
returned, said to herself, The Faithless One has forsaken me.
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Then she transformed herself into a dove and flew to the
palace. Through an open window she
entered the Great Hall and alighted on the Prince's
shoulder. Faithless One, she said
reproachfully, to leave me aloneat the inn whilst you are making
Mary here. Saying this, she flew back
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immediately to the inn. When the youth realized that
this was no dream but fact, he took a carriage and returned
without delay to the inn, put the maiden into the coach and
took her to the palace. By this time the first bride had
grown tired of waiting for so eccentric a bridegroom and had
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gone home. So the Prince married the
dervish's daughter and the wedding festivities lasted 40
days and 40 nights. And that is the story of the
wizard dervish. That's so funny.
I wanted to hear more about the witch mom.
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I I want to hear the story abouthow the wizard dervish and the
witch mom met and their love story and her pregnancy.
Were they triplets that you have3 separate pregnancies?
Like they are obviously magical witches themselves?
I want to know more about them. Hello, let's have some water
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everyone. Let's take a water break.
And that's going to lead us right into story #2 this story
is called The Silent Princess. There was once a padishah who
had a son, and the little Princehad a golden ball with which he
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was never tired of playing. One day, as he sat in his kiosk,
playing as usual with his favorite toy, an old woman came
to draw water from the spring which bubbled up in front of the
mansion. The Shahzadah, merely for jest.
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Oh, I guess that's the word for Prince.
I love that shahzada. The shahzada, merely for a jest,
threw his ball at the old woman's jug and broke it.
Damn, this Prince is a little bitch.
Without a word she fetched another jug and came again to
the spring. For the second time the Prince
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threw his ball at the jug and broke it.
The old woman was now angry, yetfearing the Padishah.
She dared not say a word, but went away and bought a third jug
on credit, as she had no money. Returning a third time to the
spring, she was in the very act of drawing water, when again the
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young prince's ball struck her jug and shattered it to pieces.
Her anger could no longer be suppressed, and turning it to
ward the shahzada, she cried. I will say only this, my Prince,
may you fall in love with the silent Princess.
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With these words she went her way.
The Prince ere long found himself brooding on the old
dame's words, and wondering whatthey could mean.
The more he dwelt upon them, themore they took possession of his
mind, until his health began to suffer.
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He grew thin and pale. He had no appetite, and in a few
days he was so I'll that he had to remain in bed.
The Padishah could not understand his son's malady.
Physicians and hodjas were summoned, but none could do any
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good. One day the Polisha asked his
son whether he could throw any light on the strange complaint
from which he was suffering. Then the boy described how three
times in succession he had broken an old woman's jug and
related what she had said to him, finally expressing his
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conviction that neither physicians nor hojas could
affect his cure. I believe a hoja is like a like
a medicine person, like a sorcerer or something.
Let's let's Google that Hoja. Hoja.
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Oh, Hoja is a Muslim schoolmaster.
OK, OK, got it. So, like a a spiritual,
spiritual teacher, the Prince asked his father's permission to
set out in the quest of the silent Princess, for he felt
that only in this way could he be freed from his affliction.
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The Padishah saw that the boy would not live long unless his
mysterious disease were cured, so after considerable
hesitation, he gave his permission and appointed his
lala to accompany the young Prince on his journey.
Toward evening they set out, andas they took no care of their
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appearance in six months they looked more like wild savages
than a noble Prince and his LA la.
They had quite forgotten rest and sleep, and thought of eating
and drinking never occurred to them.
At last they arrived at the summit of a mountain.
Here they noticed that the rocksand the earth glistened like the
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sun. Looking round, they saw that an
old man approached them. The travellers inquired the name
of that region. The old man informed them that
they stood on the mountain of the silent Princess.
The Princess herself wore a sevenfold veil, but that fact,
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notwithstanding, the glitter they observed around them, was
caused by the extraordinary brilliance of her countenance.
The travellers now inquired where the Princess resided.
The old man answered, that if they had proceeded straight on
for six months longer, they would reach her.
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Said I Hitherto many men had lost their lives in vain by
attempting to elicit a word fromthe Princess.
This news, however, did not dismay the Prince, who, with his
lala, again set off on the journey.
After long wanderings, they found themselves at the summit
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of another mountain, which they noticed was blood red on every
side. Going forward, they presently
entered a village. Here the Prince said to his LA
La, I'm very tired. Let us rest a while in this
place and at the same time make some inquiries.
Accordingly, they entered a coffee house, and when it became
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known in the village that the travellers from a distant land
were in their midst, the inhabitants came up one after
another to offer their greetings.
The Prince inquired of them why the mountain was blood red.
He was informed that three months journey that three the
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three months journey away lived the silent Princess whose red
lips reflected their hue on the mountain before them.
She wore 7 veils. She spoke not a word and it was
said that many men had sacrificed their lives on her
account. Yeah, she sounds super hot.
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We love her. On hearing this, the youth was
impatient to put his fate to thetest.
He and his lala accordingly set out to continue their journey.
After many days they saw anothergreat mountain in the distance,
and concluded it must be the dwelling place of the object of
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their quest. In due time they arrived at the
foot of the mountain and began the ascent.
Above them towered a proud castle, the residence of the
silent Princess, and as they approached near enough to see,
they observed that it was built entirely of human skulls.
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Sick. The Prince remarked to his lala.
These are the heads of those whohave perished in the attempt to
make the Princess speak. Either we attain our object, or
our skulls will be used for a similar purpose.
Oh my God, I'm literally obsessed with this Princess.
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This is so fucking hot. What's interesting like this is
me just like, you know, supposing, but I have been to
the wow, what is it called the the ossuary, the bone ossuary in
the Czech Republic. And you know, like Eastern
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Europe isn't crazy far from Turkey.
And they said that they travelled for like over six
months. So what if they're, like, in
Eastern Europe right now and she's like, some kind of, like,
Czechoslovakian dark Princess? This is hot.
She sounds super gothy. These like, blood red mountains
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and like, a skull, a skull palace.
Like, yeah, she's like the original Goth.
Before attempting to enter the castle, they took up their
lodgings in a hand for a few days.
All this time they heard nothingbut weeping and lamentation.
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Oh, my brother, oh, my son. Inquiring the cause of the
general grief, the travellers were answered.
Why do you ask? It appears you also are come to
die. This town belongs to the father
of the silent Princess. Whoever wishes to attempt to
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make her speak must first go to the Padishah, who, if he permits
it, will send an escort with thehero to the Princess.
When the youth heard this, he said to his lala, We are nearly
at the end of our journey. We will rest a few days longer
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and then see what fate has in store for us.
They continued their sojourn at the Han, and took daily walks
about the city while thus occupied.
One day the Prince saw a man with a Nightingale in a cage.
The bird caught his fancy so much that he resolved to buy it.
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The lala instructed him against it, reminding the youth that
they had a more weighty affair on hand.
The Princess however? Oh my bad.
The Prince however refused to listen and finally purchased the
bird for 1000 bias biasters and he took it to his lodging and
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hung up the cage in his room. Once, when the Prince was alone
and wandering, by what means he could make the Princess speak.
Somewhat saddened by the gloomy reflection that failure meant
death, he was startled to hear the Nightingale thus address
him. Why so gloomy, my Prince?
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What troubles you? The Prince trembled, not being
sure whether it was the bird or a spirit that spoke to him.
Growing calmer, he thought that perhaps it was the manifestation
of Allah's grace and accordinglytold the Nightingale the story
of his love for the silent Princess and that he was at his
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wits end to think of how he should get her into how he
should get into her presence. The bird replied.
There is nothing to worry about my Prince, it is as easy as can
be. Go this evening to the said I
and take me with you. The Sultana wears 7 veils.
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No one has ever seen her face and she sees no one.
Put me in my cage under the lampstand and ask the Sultana
how she is. She will vouchsafe not answer.
However, then say that she will not condescend to speak and you
will conserve with the lampstand.
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So begin to speak, and I will reply.
The Prince followed this counciland went directly to the Potty
Show's palace. When the Shah was informed that
the newcomer wished to go to hisdaughter, he received the Prince
and endeavoured to dissuade him from his intention.
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He represented that thousands already had tried in vain to
make the Princess speak. He had vowed, however, to give
her in marriage to the one who could succeed in eliciting a
word from her. This is kind of reminding me the
story of what the Rose did to the Cypress, Like a really
similar premise. On the other hand, he who tried
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and failed forfeit his head. Yeah, So this is getting brutal.
Like, we're at the crunch right now.
Our Prince has to have her reply, or else he's going to
lose his head. As the Prince might see for
himself, his daughter's castle was built entirely of human
skulls. Hardly had the youth.
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Nope, the Hardy youth could not be moved from his purpose.
He cast himself at the feet of the potty Shah, and vowed either
to accomplish his object or perish in the attempt.
Thus there was no more to be said.
The Patisha ordered that the Prince be taken into the
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presence of his daughter, the Princess.
It was evening when the youth found himself in the princess's
apartment. He put down his cage under the
lampstand, bowed himself low before the Princess, inquired
after her health, and spoke alsoon matters of less importance.
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No answer came. Then said the Prince to the
Princess, It is getting rather late, and you have not yet
favoured me with a single word. I will now address the
lampstand, even though it had nosoul.
It may have more feeling than you.
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At these words he turned the lampstand and asked, How are
you? And the answer came directly.
Quite well, though it has been many years since anyone has
spoken to me. Allah sent you to me this day
and I feel as glad as if the whole world were mine.
May I entertain you with a story?
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This is an iconic plan. The Prince nodding assent and
the voice proceeded. Once there was a Shaw who had a
daughter whom 3 Princess who 3 Princess desired to marry.
The father said to the wooers, Whichever of you excels the
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others in enterprise shall have my daughter.
The young men accordingly set off together, and coming to a
spring, they resolved to take different directions in order to
avoid any collision with each other's pursuits.
They agreed, however, to leave their rings under a stone at the
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spring, and each to take his ownup again when he returned to the
spot, thus furnishing an an intimation to him who returned
last of all that the others had already reached home.
The first learnt how to go a sixmonth journey in an hour, the
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second how to make himself invisible and the third how to
bring the dead back to life. All three arrived back
simultaneously at the spring. He who could make himself
invisible said the Padishah's daughter was very ill and would
die in two hours. The other said he would prepare
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a medicine that would restore her life again, and the third
volunteered to deliver the medicine.
Quicker than lightning. He was at the palace in the
chamber where the Princess lay dead.
Hardly had the medicine touched her lips that she sat up as well
as ever had been seen. Meanwhile both the others came
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in, and the Shah commanded all three to relate their
experiences. The Nightingale pause for a few
moments and then resumed his story.
Oh my Shahzada, which of the three Princess thinkest thou
best deserved? The maiden, the Prince answered.
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In my opinion, he who prepared the medicine, the Nightingale,
contended for him who? Who acquainted of the others of
the princess's condition. And so they hotly disputed the
matter. The silent Princess thought to
herself, They are quite forgetting him Who could go a
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six months journey in an hour. As the dispute continued, she
could endure it no longer, and lifting her sevenfold veil, she
cried. You fools, I would have.
I would give the maiden to him who brought the medicine, but
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for him she would have remained dead.
The Polishaw was immediately informed that his daughter at
length had broken her silence, but the Princess protested that
she had been the victim of a ruse.
The youth should not be considered to have succeeded in
his task until he had induced her to speak three times.
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Now said the Shah to the Prince,if you can make her make her
speak twice more, she shall belong to you.
The youth left the monarch's presence and went to his
lodgings and began to ponder thematter.
While deep in thought. The Nightingale said, The
sultana is angry at having broken her silence and has
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smashed the lampstand. So tonight put me on the other
stand by the wall. Accordingly, when evening was
come, the Prince repaired with his Nightingale to the Sarai.
Entering the princess's apartment, he put the bird cage
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on the stand by the wall and address the Sultana.
As she disdained to answer, he turned to the stand and said,
The Princess refuses to speak, therefore I will converse with
you. How are you?
Quite well, thank you, came the answer at once.
I am glad the Sultana would not speak, otherwise you would not
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have spoken to me. As it is, I will tell you a
story if you will listen. With great pleasure, replied the
Prince. Let me hear it.
So the Nightingale commenced. In a certain town, there once
lived a woman with whom three men were in love.
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Balgi Oglu, the honey maker son,Jad di Oglu, the tallow maker
son, and Tyergi Oglu, the Tannerson.
Each used to visit the woman in such ways that neither knew of
the other's visits. While brushing her hair one day,
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the woman discovered a Gray strand and said to herself,
Alas, I am growing old. The time will soon come when my
friends will become tired of me.I must make up my mind to get
married. Next day.
She invited the three lovers to visit her at different hours.
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First arrived was Jagti who found the woman in tears.
Asking the cause of her grief, he was answered.
My father is dead, and I have buried him in the garden, but
his spirit appears to torment me.
If you love me, wrap yourself inthe winding sheet and go and lie
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for three hours in the grave. Then my father's spirit will
haunt me no more. Saying this, the woman led him
to the open grave, which she hadmade as Judge Dee would have
drowned himself for her sake. He cheerfully donned the winding
sheet and lay down in it. In the meantime, Baldji, who
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inquired of the woman why she wept.
She repeated the story of her father's death and burial, and
giving him a large stone, told him to go to the grave, and when
the ghost appeared, to hit him with it.
Jesus, this is a dark plan. No sooner had Baldji taken his
leave and gone to the grave, then came the third suitor,
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Dyerji. He also sympathized with the
woman and inquired what was the trouble.
How can I help but weep? Said the woman, when my father
is dead and buried in the garden?
One of his enemies is a sorcerer.
He is now lying in wait to carryoff the body.
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As you may see, he has already opened the grave with that
intention. If you can bring me the corpse
out of the grave, all be well. If not, I am lost.
The words were scarcely uttered before Tyrji had gone to the
grave to take up Ganji and bringhim into her presence.
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But Baldji, thinking there were two ghosts instead of 1,
endeavoured to hit both with thestone.
Meanwhile, Gods, ye, believing the ghost had struck him, sprang
out of the grave and dropped thewinding sheet.
Then the three men recognized each other and explanations were
demanded. Yeah, this was a crazy ass plan.
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Now, my Prince, said the Nightingale, which of the three
men deserve the woman the most? I think Tiger G, but the Prince
was for Baldji who had put himself through so much trouble.
And so they commenced to argue as before, taking care to avoid
mentioning Godji. The Princess, who had been
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listening attentively to the narrative, was disappointed that
the mentions of Godji, oh, the merits of Godji, were not taken
into consideration, and she delivered her opinion with some
warmth. The news that the silent
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Princess had again spoken was carried to the Polisha in his
palace. Yet once more must she be
compelled to speak. As the youth was sitting in his
room, the Nightingale informed him that the Princess was so
furious for having being trickedinto speaking a second time that
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she had broken the wall stand topieces.
The next evening, therefore, he must put the bird cage behind
the door. The third and final interview
found the Princess no more amiable than usual, and as she
refused to open her mouth, the Prince tried his conversational
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powers on the door. The door, or rather the
Nightingale behind it, related the following story.
There was once a Carpenter, a tailor and a sofa travelling
together coming to a certain town.
They hired a common dwelling andopen business.
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One night when the others were asleep, the Carpenter got up and
drank coffee. Oh wait, I realized I totally
misread that because how can a it's a softer but I don't know
what a softer is because we havea Carpenter, a tailor and a
softer. Softer.
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OK, a softa is a student of theology, so like a religious
student. OK, so we have a Carpenter, a
tailor, and a religious student,the softa.
OK, so one night while the others were asleep, the
Carpenter got the Carpenter got up, drank coffee, lit his
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shoebulk and and formed an imageof a charming maiden out of
small pieces of wood lying aboutthe room.
A she book. Chi book, she book.
I also don't know what that is. I'm learning so many new words
today. OK, it's a pipe.
That's what I thought. OK, so he's smoking his pipe and
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he's arranging little pieces of wood into the image of a
beautiful maiden. So, having finished, the
Carpenter lay down again and fell asleep.
Shortly afterwards the tailor woke up and seeing the image
made suitable clothing for it, put it on and went to sleep
again. About dawn the softa awoke and
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seeing the image of the lovely girl, prayed to Allah to grant
it life. The softer's prayer was heard,
and the image was transformed into an incomparably beautiful
living maiden, who opened her eyes as one waking from a dream.
When the others rose, all three men set to disputing as to the
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possession of the lovely creature.
Now to which injustice should she belong?
In my opinion, to the Carpenter.Thus the Nightingale broke off.
The Prince thought the maiden should be belong to the tailor,
as on the previous occasions. A lively debate ensued.
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The princess's ire was aroused at the softest claim being
neglected, and she exclaimed, You fools, the softest should
have her. She owed her life to him.
She therefore belonged to him, and nobody else.
Hardly had she finished speaking.
Then the news was carried to thePadishah.
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The Prince had now rightfully won.
The Princess silent no longer. The whole town put on a festive
appearance and began preparations for the wedding.
The Prince, however, wished his marriage to take place in his
father's palace, and great was the rejoicing when he arrived
home with his bride. 40 days and40 nights where the festivities
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kept up and the old woman whose jugs had been broken was
installed in the palace as daddy, I'm sure.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I need to Google what this means.
This obviously that daddy. I think it means like, maybe
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nanny or like handmaiden. I'm not sure.
I'm trying to look it up right now, but it's spelled like DADY.
But anyway, the, the woman whosejugs had been broken was
installed, let's say, as a handmaiden, a pose she filled
happily until the end of her days.
And that is the story of the silent Princess.
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Yeah. I mean, you heard it here,
folks. All you need to do to get a lady
talking is make it so that her opinion must be shared.
That was so cute. I love hearing stories of
princesses and magic. It's so much fun.
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Hello, welcome to Esoterica and Nonsense, a podcast where we
discuss myths, legends, folk tales, fairy tales, supernatural
phenomenon and religions from around the world.
I am your host Annabelle, and today is a rainy day.
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We are going to hear stories from Turkey.
I'm very excited. Turkey is a place that I've
always wanted to go, and it is one of the most culturally rich
center points of the ancient world.
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At one point, it was a part of the Persian Empire, the Roman
Empire and the Ottoman Empire. And it is this beautiful little
bridge that connects what we consider the Middle East to
Western Europe. And I just think it's such a
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cool, flippin little piece of land.
I've always wanted to go. I want a Turkish rug.
I want to have Turkish delight. I want to eat Turkish dishes.
I want to just live the whole fantasy.
So let's hear some magical stories from from Turkey.
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Turkey. I don't I don't know how to say
it properly. I'm just having fun.
OK, so story number one is called the wizard dervish.
A long time ago lived a potty sha.
A potty sha is like a like a Shaw, like a like a principal
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ruler, an emperor, if you will. So a long time ago lived a potty
Shaw who had no son as he was taking a walk with his LA la one
day. What's a La La?
We need to Google this La La Turkey a La La is a tutor or a
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statesman. Oh very good to know you learn
something everyday. OK.
As he was taking a walk with hisLA La one day, they came to a
well near which they stopped to wish.
A dervish suddenly appeared and cried.
Oh hail my Patisha. A dervish, just in case if you
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don't know, is like a religious man.
You may have heard the term likethe whirl whirling dervish.
Oh, we should do an episode on dervishes.
But it's a sect of I think it's their own religion, right?
We might have to Google this too.
Oh no, no, no. So dervish is a, is a Suf, a
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Sufi sect of Islam. Oh, that's so interesting.
And they're, they're priests like men just to just to keep it
simple. OK, so the dervish cries.
Oh, hail my padishah. At this the Padishah answered.
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If you know that I am the Padishah, then can you tell me
the cause of my sorrow? The dervish drew an apple from
his breast and said, Your sorrowis that you have no son.
Take this apple, eat half yourself and give the other half
to your wife. Then in due time you shall have
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a son. He shall belong to you till his
20th year afterwards, and then he shall be mine.
Oh shit, this is giving Rumpelstiltskin baby.
I don't know dude, Maybe you should just conceive on your own
because this guy is going to take your son and then you won't
have an heir. No, no, no.
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But he's probably going to do it.
With these words, the dervish vanished the potty shop, went
home to his palace, cut the apple and sharing it with his
wife according to the instructions of the dervish.
I knew he was going to do it. I knew he was.
Everyone wants a son when you are a ruler because you want an
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heir. The thing is, you're not going
to have an heir when the Rumpelstiltskin dervish comes
back and snatches him. What are you thinking, bro?
You're just going to have to keep trying.
Sometime later, as the wizard dervish had promised, the little
Prince came to the palace and the Padishah, in his great joy,
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ordered the happy event to be celebrated throughout his
dominions. When the boy was five years old,
a tutor was appointed to teach him reading and writing.
In his 13th year he began to take walks and go on journeys,
and soon afterwards he took partin hunting excursions as well.
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When he was nearing his 20th year, his father began to think
of finding him a wife. A suitable maiden being
discovered, the young couple were betrothed, but on the very
day of the wedding, when all theguests had assembled in
readiness for the ceremony, the dervish came and carried off the
bridegroom to the foot of a mountain.
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Yeah, dude, like what were you expecting?
He literally told you the deal from day one.
What do you like? This is so crazy bro.
He uttered the words remain in peace and he went away in great
fear. The young Prince looked around
him, but saw nothing more alarming than 3 white doves
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flying towards the river on whose bank he was resting.
As they alighted, they were transformed into three beautiful
maidens who entered the water tobathe.
Presently 2 of them came out andresumed their bird forms and
flew away. As the third maiden left the
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water, she caught sight of the young Prince.
Much astonished at his presence,she inquired how he had come
there. A dervish carried me.
Hit her. He answered, whereon the girl
rejoined. That dervish is my father.
When he comes he will take you by your hair, and hang you on
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that tree, and flog you with a whip.
Dost know he will ask, and the question you must answer I know
not. Having given this advice, the
girl transforming herself into awhite dove flew away quickly.
Wow, she sounds hot. Are you kidding me?
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A girl who transforms into dove form like she sounds super hot?
Presently, the young Prince saw the dervish approaching with a
whip in his hand. He hung the youth by his hair to
a tree, flogged him soundly, andasked, Dost no dost know what,
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bro? When the young Prince answered,
I know not, The dervish went away for three days in
succession. The youth was beaten black and
blue. But when the dervish had
satisfied himself that his victim understood nothing at
all, he set him free. Did a youth and a maiden pass
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this way? She inquired what?
OK, OK, I was confused but the story explains itself.
When the youth was out walking one day, the dove came to him
and said take this bird and hideit.
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When my father asked which of these three maidens you desire,
point to me. If, however, you do not
recognize me, produce the bird and answer.
I desire the maiden to whom thisbird shall fly.
Wow, Shorty's really looking outfor him, he's so lucky.
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Wow, she has a crush. The next day the dervish brought
him, brought with him the three maidens, and asked the youth
which of them pleased him best. The youth accordingly produced
the bird, and said that he desired to whom the bird should
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fly. The bird was set free and
alighted on the maiden who had instructed him.
She was given in marriage to theyouth, but without the consent
of her mother, who was a witch. Oh yeah, now the story is
getting interesting. A dervish, a magical wizard
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dervish and a witch have 3 hot daughters who are dove girls.
Like sign me up dude. While the youth and the maiden
were walking together, they saw the mother coming after them.
The maiden giving the youth a knock changed him into a large
garden and by another knock changed herself into a gardener.
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When the woman came up, she inquired, gardener, did not a
maiden and a youth pass this way?
The gardener answered, My red turnips are not yet ripe, they
are still small, the witch retorted, My dear gardener, I
did not ask about your turnips, but about a youth and a maiden.
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But the gardener only replied, Ihave set no spinach, It will not
be up for a month or two. She seeing she was not
understood, the woman turned andwent away.
When the woman was no longer insight, the gardener knocked
the garden, which became the young man again, and she knocked
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herself and became once more a maiden.
They now walked on, the woman turning back and seeing them
together, hasten to overtake them.
The maiden also turned round, and saw her mother hurrying
after them quickly. She gave the youth a knock, and
turned him into an oven, and knocked herself, and became a
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Baker. The mother came up and asked
Baker, have not a youth and a maiden pass this way?
The bread is not yet baked. I have just put it in.
Come again in half an hour, thenyou may have some, was the
answer. At this the woman said, I did
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not ask you for bread. I inquired whether a youth and a
maiden had passed this way. The reply was as little to the
point as before. Wait a while.
When the bread is ready we will eat.
When the woman saw she was not understood, she went away again.
As soon as the coast was clear, the Baker knocked the oven,
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which became the young man, and she knocked herself back into
the form of a maiden, and they pursued their way.
Looking back once more, the woman again saw the youth and
the maiden. She now realized that the oven
and the Baker were the runaways in disguise, and hurried after
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them. Seeing that her mother was
coming, the maiden again knockedthe youth and changed him into a
pond. Herself she changed into a duck,
swimming upon the water. When the woman arrived at the
pond, she ran to and fro, seeking a place when she could
reach the opposite side. At length, seeing she could go
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no further, no further, she turned round and went home
again. The danger over the duck struck
the pond and changed it into theyouth, and she transformed
herself into the maiden as before, upon which they resumed
their journey. Wandering onward, they came at
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length to the birth place of theyouth, where they entered an
inn. Then, said he to the maiden,
Remain here while I fetch a carriage and take you away.
On the road he encountered the dervish, who seized him and
transported him immediately to his father's palace, and set him
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down in the Great Hall, where the wedding guests were still
waiting. The Prince looked round at all
of them and rubbed his eyes. Had he been dreaming?
What can it all mean? He said to himself.
Meanwhile the maiden at the inn,seeing the youth had not
returned, said to herself, The Faithless One has forsaken me.
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Then she transformed herself into a dove and flew to the
palace. Through an open window she
entered the Great Hall and alighted on the Prince's
shoulder. Faithless One, she said
reproachfully, to leave me aloneat the inn whilst you are making
Mary here. Saying this, she flew back
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immediately to the inn. When the youth realized that
this was no dream but fact, he took a carriage and returned
without delay to the inn, put the maiden into the coach and
took her to the palace. By this time the first bride had
grown tired of waiting for so eccentric a bridegroom and had
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gone home. So the Prince married the
dervish's daughter and the wedding festivities lasted 40
days and 40 nights. And that is the story of the
wizard dervish. That's so funny.
I wanted to hear more about the witch mom.
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I I want to hear the story abouthow the wizard dervish and the
witch mom met and their love story and her pregnancy.
Were they triplets that you have3 separate pregnancies?
Like they are obviously magical witches themselves?
I want to know more about them. Hello, let's have some water
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everyone. Let's take a water break.
And that's going to lead us right into story #2 this story
is called The Silent Princess. There was once a padishah who
had a son, and the little Princehad a golden ball with which he
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was never tired of playing. One day, as he sat in his kiosk,
playing as usual with his favorite toy, an old woman came
to draw water from the spring which bubbled up in front of the
mansion. The Shahzadah, merely for jest.
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Oh, I guess that's the word for Prince.
I love that shahzada. The shahzada, merely for a jest,
threw his ball at the old woman's jug and broke it.
Damn, this Prince is a little bitch.
Without a word she fetched another jug and came again to
the spring. For the second time the Prince
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threw his ball at the jug and broke it.
The old woman was now angry, yetfearing the Padishah.
She dared not say a word, but went away and bought a third jug
on credit, as she had no money. Returning a third time to the
spring, she was in the very act of drawing water, when again the
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young prince's ball struck her jug and shattered it to pieces.
Her anger could no longer be suppressed, and turning it to
ward the shahzada, she cried. I will say only this, my Prince,
may you fall in love with the silent Princess.
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With these words she went her way.
The Prince ere long found himself brooding on the old
dame's words, and wondering whatthey could mean.
The more he dwelt upon them, themore they took possession of his
mind, until his health began to suffer.
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He grew thin and pale. He had no appetite, and in a few
days he was so I'll that he had to remain in bed.
The Padishah could not understand his son's malady.
Physicians and hodjas were summoned, but none could do any
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good. One day the Polisha asked his
son whether he could throw any light on the strange complaint
from which he was suffering. Then the boy described how three
times in succession he had broken an old woman's jug and
related what she had said to him, finally expressing his
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conviction that neither physicians nor hojas could
affect his cure. I believe a hoja is like a like
a medicine person, like a sorcerer or something.
Let's let's Google that Hoja. Hoja.
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Oh, Hoja is a Muslim schoolmaster.
OK, OK, got it. So, like a a spiritual,
spiritual teacher, the Prince asked his father's permission to
set out in the quest of the silent Princess, for he felt
that only in this way could he be freed from his affliction.
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The Padishah saw that the boy would not live long unless his
mysterious disease were cured, so after considerable
hesitation, he gave his permission and appointed his
lala to accompany the young Prince on his journey.
Toward evening they set out, andas they took no care of their
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appearance in six months they looked more like wild savages
than a noble Prince and his LA la.
They had quite forgotten rest and sleep, and thought of eating
and drinking never occurred to them.
At last they arrived at the summit of a mountain.
Here they noticed that the rocksand the earth glistened like the
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sun. Looking round, they saw that an
old man approached them. The travellers inquired the name
of that region. The old man informed them that
they stood on the mountain of the silent Princess.
The Princess herself wore a sevenfold veil, but that fact,
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notwithstanding, the glitter they observed around them, was
caused by the extraordinary brilliance of her countenance.
The travellers now inquired where the Princess resided.
The old man answered, that if they had proceeded straight on
for six months longer, they would reach her.
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Said I Hitherto many men had lost their lives in vain by
attempting to elicit a word fromthe Princess.
This news, however, did not dismay the Prince, who, with his
lala, again set off on the journey.
After long wanderings, they found themselves at the summit
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of another mountain, which they noticed was blood red on every
side. Going forward, they presently
entered a village. Here the Prince said to his LA
La, I'm very tired. Let us rest a while in this
place and at the same time make some inquiries.
Accordingly, they entered a coffee house, and when it became
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known in the village that the travellers from a distant land
were in their midst, the inhabitants came up one after
another to offer their greetings.
The Prince inquired of them why the mountain was blood red.
He was informed that three months journey that three the
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three months journey away lived the silent Princess whose red
lips reflected their hue on the mountain before them.
She wore 7 veils. She spoke not a word and it was
said that many men had sacrificed their lives on her
account. Yeah, she sounds super hot.
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We love her. On hearing this, the youth was
impatient to put his fate to thetest.
He and his lala accordingly set out to continue their journey.
After many days they saw anothergreat mountain in the distance,
and concluded it must be the dwelling place of the object of
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their quest. In due time they arrived at the
foot of the mountain and began the ascent.
Above them towered a proud castle, the residence of the
silent Princess, and as they approached near enough to see,
they observed that it was built entirely of human skulls.
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Sick. The Prince remarked to his lala.
These are the heads of those whohave perished in the attempt to
make the Princess speak. Either we attain our object, or
our skulls will be used for a similar purpose.
Oh my God, I'm literally obsessed with this Princess.
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This is so fucking hot. What's interesting like this is
me just like, you know, supposing, but I have been to
the wow, what is it called the the ossuary, the bone ossuary in
the Czech Republic. And you know, like Eastern
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Europe isn't crazy far from Turkey.
And they said that they travelled for like over six
months. So what if they're, like, in
Eastern Europe right now and she's like, some kind of, like,
Czechoslovakian dark Princess? This is hot.
She sounds super gothy. These like, blood red mountains
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and like, a skull, a skull palace.
Like, yeah, she's like the original Goth.
Before attempting to enter the castle, they took up their
lodgings in a hand for a few days.
All this time they heard nothingbut weeping and lamentation.
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Oh, my brother, oh, my son. Inquiring the cause of the
general grief, the travellers were answered.
Why do you ask? It appears you also are come to
die. This town belongs to the father
of the silent Princess. Whoever wishes to attempt to
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make her speak must first go to the Padishah, who, if he permits
it, will send an escort with thehero to the Princess.
When the youth heard this, he said to his lala, We are nearly
at the end of our journey. We will rest a few days longer
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and then see what fate has in store for us.
They continued their sojourn at the Han, and took daily walks
about the city while thus occupied.
One day the Prince saw a man with a Nightingale in a cage.
The bird caught his fancy so much that he resolved to buy it.
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The lala instructed him against it, reminding the youth that
they had a more weighty affair on hand.
The Princess however? Oh my bad.
The Prince however refused to listen and finally purchased the
bird for 1000 bias biasters and he took it to his lodging and
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hung up the cage in his room. Once, when the Prince was alone
and wandering, by what means he could make the Princess speak.
Somewhat saddened by the gloomy reflection that failure meant
death, he was startled to hear the Nightingale thus address
him. Why so gloomy, my Prince?
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What troubles you? The Prince trembled, not being
sure whether it was the bird or a spirit that spoke to him.
Growing calmer, he thought that perhaps it was the manifestation
of Allah's grace and accordinglytold the Nightingale the story
of his love for the silent Princess and that he was at his
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wits end to think of how he should get her into how he
should get into her presence. The bird replied.
There is nothing to worry about my Prince, it is as easy as can
be. Go this evening to the said I
and take me with you. The Sultana wears 7 veils.
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No one has ever seen her face and she sees no one.
Put me in my cage under the lampstand and ask the Sultana
how she is. She will vouchsafe not answer.
However, then say that she will not condescend to speak and you
will conserve with the lampstand.
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So begin to speak, and I will reply.
The Prince followed this counciland went directly to the Potty
Show's palace. When the Shah was informed that
the newcomer wished to go to hisdaughter, he received the Prince
and endeavoured to dissuade him from his intention.
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He represented that thousands already had tried in vain to
make the Princess speak. He had vowed, however, to give
her in marriage to the one who could succeed in eliciting a
word from her. This is kind of reminding me the
story of what the Rose did to the Cypress, Like a really
similar premise. On the other hand, he who tried
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and failed forfeit his head. Yeah, So this is getting brutal.
Like, we're at the crunch right now.
Our Prince has to have her reply, or else he's going to
lose his head. As the Prince might see for
himself, his daughter's castle was built entirely of human
skulls. Hardly had the youth.
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Nope, the Hardy youth could not be moved from his purpose.
He cast himself at the feet of the potty Shah, and vowed either
to accomplish his object or perish in the attempt.
Thus there was no more to be said.
The Patisha ordered that the Prince be taken into the
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presence of his daughter, the Princess.
It was evening when the youth found himself in the princess's
apartment. He put down his cage under the
lampstand, bowed himself low before the Princess, inquired
after her health, and spoke alsoon matters of less importance.
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No answer came. Then said the Prince to the
Princess, It is getting rather late, and you have not yet
favoured me with a single word. I will now address the
lampstand, even though it had nosoul.
It may have more feeling than you.
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At these words he turned the lampstand and asked, How are
you? And the answer came directly.
Quite well, though it has been many years since anyone has
spoken to me. Allah sent you to me this day
and I feel as glad as if the whole world were mine.
May I entertain you with a story?
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This is an iconic plan. The Prince nodding assent and
the voice proceeded. Once there was a Shaw who had a
daughter whom 3 Princess who 3 Princess desired to marry.
The father said to the wooers, Whichever of you excels the
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others in enterprise shall have my daughter.
The young men accordingly set off together, and coming to a
spring, they resolved to take different directions in order to
avoid any collision with each other's pursuits.
They agreed, however, to leave their rings under a stone at the
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spring, and each to take his ownup again when he returned to the
spot, thus furnishing an an intimation to him who returned
last of all that the others had already reached home.
The first learnt how to go a sixmonth journey in an hour, the
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second how to make himself invisible and the third how to
bring the dead back to life. All three arrived back
simultaneously at the spring. He who could make himself
invisible said the Padishah's daughter was very ill and would
die in two hours. The other said he would prepare
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a medicine that would restore her life again, and the third
volunteered to deliver the medicine.
Quicker than lightning. He was at the palace in the
chamber where the Princess lay dead.
Hardly had the medicine touched her lips that she sat up as well
as ever had been seen. Meanwhile both the others came
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in, and the Shah commanded all three to relate their
experiences. The Nightingale pause for a few
moments and then resumed his story.
Oh my Shahzada, which of the three Princess thinkest thou
best deserved? The maiden, the Prince answered.
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In my opinion, he who prepared the medicine, the Nightingale,
contended for him who? Who acquainted of the others of
the princess's condition. And so they hotly disputed the
matter. The silent Princess thought to
herself, They are quite forgetting him Who could go a
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six months journey in an hour. As the dispute continued, she
could endure it no longer, and lifting her sevenfold veil, she
cried. You fools, I would have.
I would give the maiden to him who brought the medicine, but
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for him she would have remained dead.
The Polishaw was immediately informed that his daughter at
length had broken her silence, but the Princess protested that
she had been the victim of a ruse.
The youth should not be considered to have succeeded in
his task until he had induced her to speak three times.
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Now said the Shah to the Prince,if you can make her make her
speak twice more, she shall belong to you.
The youth left the monarch's presence and went to his
lodgings and began to ponder thematter.
While deep in thought. The Nightingale said, The
sultana is angry at having broken her silence and has
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smashed the lampstand. So tonight put me on the other
stand by the wall. Accordingly, when evening was
come, the Prince repaired with his Nightingale to the Sarai.
Entering the princess's apartment, he put the bird cage
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on the stand by the wall and address the Sultana.
As she disdained to answer, he turned to the stand and said,
The Princess refuses to speak, therefore I will converse with
you. How are you?
Quite well, thank you, came the answer at once.
I am glad the Sultana would not speak, otherwise you would not
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have spoken to me. As it is, I will tell you a
story if you will listen. With great pleasure, replied the
Prince. Let me hear it.
So the Nightingale commenced. In a certain town, there once
lived a woman with whom three men were in love.
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Balgi Oglu, the honey maker son,Jad di Oglu, the tallow maker
son, and Tyergi Oglu, the Tannerson.
Each used to visit the woman in such ways that neither knew of
the other's visits. While brushing her hair one day,
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the woman discovered a Gray strand and said to herself,
Alas, I am growing old. The time will soon come when my
friends will become tired of me.I must make up my mind to get
married. Next day.
She invited the three lovers to visit her at different hours.
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First arrived was Jagti who found the woman in tears.
Asking the cause of her grief, he was answered.
My father is dead, and I have buried him in the garden, but
his spirit appears to torment me.
If you love me, wrap yourself inthe winding sheet and go and lie
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for three hours in the grave. Then my father's spirit will
haunt me no more. Saying this, the woman led him
to the open grave, which she hadmade as Judge Dee would have
drowned himself for her sake. He cheerfully donned the winding
sheet and lay down in it. In the meantime, Baldji, who
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inquired of the woman why she wept.
She repeated the story of her father's death and burial, and
giving him a large stone, told him to go to the grave, and when
the ghost appeared, to hit him with it.
Jesus, this is a dark plan. No sooner had Baldji taken his
leave and gone to the grave, then came the third suitor,
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Dyerji. He also sympathized with the
woman and inquired what was the trouble.
How can I help but weep? Said the woman, when my father
is dead and buried in the garden?
One of his enemies is a sorcerer.
He is now lying in wait to carryoff the body.
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As you may see, he has already opened the grave with that
intention. If you can bring me the corpse
out of the grave, all be well. If not, I am lost.
The words were scarcely uttered before Tyrji had gone to the
grave to take up Ganji and bringhim into her presence.
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But Baldji, thinking there were two ghosts instead of 1,
endeavoured to hit both with thestone.
Meanwhile, Gods, ye, believing the ghost had struck him, sprang
out of the grave and dropped thewinding sheet.
Then the three men recognized each other and explanations were
demanded. Yeah, this was a crazy ass plan.
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Now, my Prince, said the Nightingale, which of the three
men deserve the woman the most? I think Tiger G, but the Prince
was for Baldji who had put himself through so much trouble.
And so they commenced to argue as before, taking care to avoid
mentioning Godji. The Princess, who had been
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listening attentively to the narrative, was disappointed that
the mentions of Godji, oh, the merits of Godji, were not taken
into consideration, and she delivered her opinion with some
warmth. The news that the silent
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Princess had again spoken was carried to the Polisha in his
palace. Yet once more must she be
compelled to speak. As the youth was sitting in his
room, the Nightingale informed him that the Princess was so
furious for having being trickedinto speaking a second time that
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she had broken the wall stand topieces.
The next evening, therefore, he must put the bird cage behind
the door. The third and final interview
found the Princess no more amiable than usual, and as she
refused to open her mouth, the Prince tried his conversational
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powers on the door. The door, or rather the
Nightingale behind it, related the following story.
There was once a Carpenter, a tailor and a sofa travelling
together coming to a certain town.
They hired a common dwelling andopen business.
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One night when the others were asleep, the Carpenter got up and
drank coffee. Oh wait, I realized I totally
misread that because how can a it's a softer but I don't know
what a softer is because we havea Carpenter, a tailor and a
softer. Softer.
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OK, a softa is a student of theology, so like a religious
student. OK, so we have a Carpenter, a
tailor, and a religious student,the softa.
OK, so one night while the others were asleep, the
Carpenter got the Carpenter got up, drank coffee, lit his
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shoebulk and and formed an imageof a charming maiden out of
small pieces of wood lying aboutthe room.
A she book. Chi book, she book.
I also don't know what that is. I'm learning so many new words
today. OK, it's a pipe.
That's what I thought. OK, so he's smoking his pipe and
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he's arranging little pieces of wood into the image of a
beautiful maiden. So, having finished, the
Carpenter lay down again and fell asleep.
Shortly afterwards the tailor woke up and seeing the image
made suitable clothing for it, put it on and went to sleep
again. About dawn the softa awoke and
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seeing the image of the lovely girl, prayed to Allah to grant
it life. The softer's prayer was heard,
and the image was transformed into an incomparably beautiful
living maiden, who opened her eyes as one waking from a dream.
When the others rose, all three men set to disputing as to the
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possession of the lovely creature.
Now to which injustice should she belong?
In my opinion, to the Carpenter.Thus the Nightingale broke off.
The Prince thought the maiden should be belong to the tailor,
as on the previous occasions. A lively debate ensued.
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The princess's ire was aroused at the softest claim being
neglected, and she exclaimed, You fools, the softest should
have her. She owed her life to him.
She therefore belonged to him, and nobody else.
Hardly had she finished speaking.
Then the news was carried to thePadishah.
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The Prince had now rightfully won.
The Princess silent no longer. The whole town put on a festive
appearance and began preparations for the wedding.
The Prince, however, wished his marriage to take place in his
father's palace, and great was the rejoicing when he arrived
home with his bride. 40 days and40 nights where the festivities
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kept up and the old woman whose jugs had been broken was
installed in the palace as daddy, I'm sure.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I need to Google what this means.
This obviously that daddy. I think it means like, maybe
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nanny or like handmaiden. I'm not sure.
I'm trying to look it up right now, but it's spelled like DADY.
But anyway, the, the woman whosejugs had been broken was
installed, let's say, as a handmaiden, a pose she filled
happily until the end of her days.
And that is the story of the silent Princess.
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Yeah. I mean, you heard it here,
folks. All you need to do to get a lady
talking is make it so that her opinion must be shared.
That was so cute. I love hearing stories of
princesses and magic. It's so much fun.
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That was a fun cute little storyof some Turkish fairy tales.
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