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The Paradox: The Wise Fool in Turkish Oral Tradition |
| Section: CULTURE / FOLK WISDOM--TRICKSTER MYTHOLOGY FROM AROUND THE WORLD |
| Author: Paul J. Magnarella and Sheila K. Webster |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 1,100 Words, 6,286 Characters |
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Throughout the Middle East, narrative cycles - sets of stories centered on a constant theme or hero - featuring trickster-fools have long been popular. Indeed, Hasan El-Shamy notes that many of the characters and their actions have ancient origins. Seth, an ancient Egyptian deity, was essentially a divine trickster, and some of the animals associated with Seth - including the jackal, the hyena, and the donkey - still appear in various traditions as anthropomorphic animal tricksters, sometimes with supernatural abilities.
While the true animal trickster is virtually absent from modern Middle Eastern folklore, th...
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...addressing a deaf and dumb man, the traveler gave up and continued walking in the direction of the town.
After he had gone about fifteen meters, the Khoja, who had been watching him, called out, "Hey, traveler! It'll take you about half an hour." "Why didn't you say so before?" demanded the irritated traveler. "Because I didn't know how fast you were walking," explained the Khoja.
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