Reading Extra Credit: Persian Tales


I love animal tales and fairy tales! My Story book is about Italian fairy tales, so I thought it would be good to have other regional fairy tales to compare them to. These will also give me examples of how to write my own. These stories come from "Persian Tales" which was translated by D.L.R. Lorimer and E.O. Lorimer.

The Wolf and the Goat was a fun ready! Especially because it is a parallel to a Brothers Grimm story. Most of Brothers Grimm's stories come from the Pentamerone, a collection of Italian fairy tales. This story reminded me a little bit of the wolf and the three little piggies.

Goat Source: Flickr

The WolfAunt is an exciting story about a werewolf! This story is based in Iran. I noticed that this story started out the same way as The Wolf and the Goat with the phrase "Once upon a time there was a time where there was no one but God". This story also ended with the same phrase "And now my story has come to an end, but the sparrow never got home". I am not sure what these two phrases signify, but I am curious to discover their meaning!



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