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  2. The Fan of Patience (Pakistani fairy tale) - Wikipedia

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    The Fan of Patience (Urdu: Sabr ka pankha) is a Pakistani fairy tale from Punjab, published by Pakistani author Shafi Aqeel and translated into English by writer Ahmad Bashir. It tells the story of a princess who summons into her room a prince named Sobur (Arabic: "Patience"), or variations thereof, by the use of a magical fan. [1]

  3. The Tale of the Four Dervishes - Wikipedia

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    ' The Story of Four Dervishes '), known as Bāgh-o Bahār (باغ و بہار, lit. ' Garden and Spring ') in Urdu, is a collection of allegorical stories by Amir Khusro written in Persian in the early 13th century. While legend says that Amir Khusro was the author, the tales were written long after his death.

  4. Pakistani folklore - Wikipedia

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    Sindhi folklore (Sindhi: لوڪ ادب) is composed of folk traditions which have developed in Sindh over many centuries.Sindh thus possesses a wealth of folklore, including such well-known components as the traditional Watayo Faqir tales, the legend of Moriro, the epic tale of Dodo Chanesar and material relating to the hero Marui, imbuing it with its own distinctive local colour or flavour in ...

  5. Lake Saiful Muluk - Wikipedia

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    The Lake Saiful Muluk is named after a legendary prince. A fairy tale called Saiful Muluk, later on turnt into poem form by the Sufi poet Mian Muhammad Bakhsh. [7] It tells the story of the Egyptian Prince Saiful Malook who fell in love with a fairy princess named Princess Badri-ul-Jamala at the lake. [8] [1]

  6. Punjabi folklore - Wikipedia

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    Book cover of Tales of the Punjab by Flora Annie Steel. Academic folkloristic research into and the collecting of the large corpus of Punjabi folktales began during the colonial-era by Britishers, such as Flora Annie Steel's three papers on her studies of local Punjabi folktales (1880), with a translation of three fables into English, [2] Richard Carnac Temple's The Legends of the Punjab (1884 ...

  7. The Ruby Prince (Punjabi folktale) - Wikipedia

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    The Ruby Prince is a South Asian folktale, first published in the late 19th century by author Flora Annie Steel.The tale is a local form of the cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom or The Search for the Lost Husband, in that a woman marries a man of supernatural origin, loses him and must regain him.

  8. The reason for this targeted pruning, according to The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar, is that the Grimms saw their collection as an opportunity to reframe the stories as children's tales. "The classic fairy tale was appropriated to serve the purpose of socializing children," writes Tatar, and "the Grimms seem to have ...

  9. Princess Aubergine - Wikipedia

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    Princess Aubergine (Baingan Bádsháhzádí) is an Indian folktale collected by Flora Annie Steel and sourced from the Punjab region. It concerns a princess whose lifeforce is tied to a necklace, and, as soon as it falls in the hand of a rival, the princess falls into a death-like sleep - comparable to heroines of European fairy tales Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. [1]