Forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales

This book draws on the rich folklore of Turkey. Forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales. Most of these stories are framed by the usual fairy tale apparatus. There are quests to win the hand of a princess evil step-relations talking animals magical objects and transformations simple (but brave) peasants wizards and witches dragons and dungeons thousand-league journeys and loveable fools. The majority of these stories contain encounters with Turkish supernatural beings. These are called Dews known elsewhere in Islamic folklore as Devis or Jin Europeanized as Genie. (Sometimes in this book the Turkish Dew are also called Arabs!)