- You have recently read
-
- The Story of the Third Calender, Son of a King
- The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor
- The King of the Ants
- The Good Husband and the Bad Wife
- The legend of the wooden shoe
- The Pigeon's Bride - The Story of a Princess Who Kissed and Told
- The Little Lame Fox - The Story of the Youngest Brother Who Found the Magic Grape-Vine and Married the Golden Maiden
- The Tale of the Silver Saucer and the Transparent Apple
- The Twelve Months: The Story of Marushka and the Wicked Holena
- The hunting of the Snark
- Clean
The Story of the Husband and the Parrot
It is no uncertain thing, however. The physician, Douban, wishes to assassinate you. My zeal prompts me to disclose this to your Majesty. If I am wrong, I deserve to be punished as a vizir was once punished." "What had the vizir done," said the Greek king, "to merit the punishment?" "I will tell your Majesty, if you will do me the honour to listen," answered the vizir."
There was once a king who was very powerful. He had great influence over the wild beasts and animals. Now the tortoise was looked upon as the wisest of all beasts and men. This king had a son named Ekpenyon, to whom he gave fifty young girls as wives, but the prince did not like any of them. The king was very angry at this, and made a law that if any man had a daughter who was finer than the prince's wives, and who found favour in his son's eyes, the girl herself and her father and mother should be killed.
© 2013-2019 FairyTales
Almost all texts on this website are from the Public Domain.