This story is familiar to me as a common convention in the genie in the bottle fantasy tales.( He speaks )

My head is empty, no thoughts rattling around inside. In a few minutes (ago) I must rise to deal with laundry - wet and cold and dripping. Not enough coffee, not enough brain.


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The first old man is waiting along with two other old men and a merchant for a genie who is coming to kill the merchant for accidentally killing his son.When the old man, who led the hind, saw the Genie lay hold of the merchant, and about to murder him without mercy, he threw himself at the monster's feet, and kissing them, said, "Prince of the ( Read more... )

Pedophile. (claonaireThat's my first thought. This guy married his cousin when she was 12 years old and boasts about how he's not only a relative and her husband but that she regarded him as a father-figure as well. It makes me happy that it was a boy-child that he got upon his female servant ( Read more... )

Last night I finished my editing of the translation of the Arabian Nights story "The Ass and the Ox". Today I formatted the English version for printing as a pamphlet - intending to send it to someone I think would enjoy it. Once I print that out, I'll format the Gaelic for myself. I am thinking of posting both to the puxill livejournal ( Read more... )

There had been plans to go to a nearby town for books, plans were called on account of snow, but they would have been cancelled anyway - M was feeling fragile again. (Eating all of the zeppoli from Olive Garden for breakfast didn't help!) And there was snow. From about noon to midnight. Snow ( Read more... )

The chronicles of the ancient Kings of Persia, who extended their empire into the Indies, and as far as China, tell of a powerful king of that family, who dying, left two sons. The eldest, Shahriar, inherited the bulk of his empire; the younger, Shahzenan, who like his brother Shahriar was a virtuous prince, well beloved of his subjects, became ( Read more... )

I don't really have anything to post today, but I've got a basket of eggs that need to be displayed, so I'm posting anyway ( Read more... )

We all know the story of the Arabian Nights, right? Shehezerade telling the sultan her husband stories over a thousand and one nights... right? Well, here's the ( reason why. )

At the beginning of this month, I stumbled across a pdf version of The Arabian Nights in Scottish Gaelic. "Flipping" through it, I found that it contained the seven voyages of Sindbad and I thought to myself "I know that ... everyone knows Sindbad ... that'll make it easier to understand what's written." So I decided that I'd transcribe the ( Read more... )