The King's Son and the Ghula
The King's Son and the Ghula is a fairy tale from the Arabian Nights . It is in Claudia Otts translation as The King's Son and the Ghula (Nights 15-16), in Max Henning as the story of the faithless vizier and the prince's adventure with the Ghûla .
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A vizier who is supposed to accompany the prince on the hunt encourages him to follow an animal. The prince finds himself alone in the desert. Then a girl appears who is crying that she is an Indian king's daughter. He takes it with him on the horse. She dismounts at a ruin and promises her children it as food, because she is a ghoul. He calls on God, and she disappears. His father has the vizier killed.
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A ghula is a man-eating demon . The fairy tale is told by the vizier to the king in King Yunan and the doctor Duban , in turn embedded in The Fisherman and the Djinni .
The hunt, a befitting pastime of princes and kings, is used to meet the numinous in European fairy tales, of course in the forest, cf. for example Perrault's Griseldis or Grimm's little brother and sister , De two Künigeskinner .
literature
- Claudia Ott (Ed.): A thousand and one nights. How it all started Based on the oldest Arabic manuscript in the edition by Muhsin Mahdi, first translated into German and appended by Claudia Ott. Title of the original Arabic edition: The Thousand And One Nights (Alf Layla wa-Layla). dtv, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-423-14611-1 , pp. 65-67 (first CH Beck, Munich 2006).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Claudia Ott (Ed.): A thousand and one nights. How it all started Based on the oldest Arabic manuscript in the edition by Muhsin Mahdi, first translated into German and appended by Claudia Ott. Title of the original Arabic edition: The Thousand And One Nights (Alf Layla wa-Layla). dtv, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-423-14611-1 , p. 691 (first CH Beck, Munich 2006).