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Subcategories

• Arabian Nights
• Nasreddin and Juha

Resources in This Category

• Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative

  http://aton.ttu.edu/
  Collection of Turkish folktales in English, as well as epic and other texts in several Turkic languages (PDF format).

• Children's Folklore: Jirtdan

  http://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/43_folder/43_articles/43_children.html
  One of the most popular and beloved fairy tales in Azerbaijan, with an introduction.

• Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales

  http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft4s2005r4/
  Collection of tales gathered and annotated by Ibrahim Muhawi (Darwish) and Sharif Kanaana; e-text from the University of California Press.

• The Bald Boy Keloğlan and the Most Beautiful Girl in the World

  http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/texts/carrie_books/paksoy-8/The_Bald_Boy_Keloglan_and_the_Most_Beautiful_Girl_in_the_World.pdf
  Exploration by H. Paksoy of Keloğlan, an archetype from Turkish folktales, illustrated with stories.

• The Passion and the Magic: Distinctions of Arabic Folktales

  http://almashriq.hiof.no/general/000/070/079/al-jadid/aljadid-magic.html
  Article by Fatme Sharafeddine Hassan on some characteristic elements of Arabic folktales.

• Timor

  http://waynakh.com/eng/2011/04/timour-fairy-tale/
  A Chechen tale.

 

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