Timeless Fairy Tales
By Timeless Fairy Tales
Categories: Religion & Spirituality, Islam
Age-old tales for today's worries. Timeless Fairy Tales tells Anatolian folk tales and stories from Rumi, Yunus Emre and the Seljuk and Ottoman eras – and talks about what they teach us about family, siblings, patience and the heart. With verses of the Quran and hadith. AI voice.
16 episodes indexed on PodSearch.
Recent episodes
- A Father Far Away, a Home That Waits – Dede Korkut: Bamsi Beyrek and Banu Chichek
"Dad, when are you coming?" "No leave this summer either, son." In many homes the table is set, yet one chair stays empty; its owner is working far away. Some went to Germany, some to the big city, some to a distant building site. "A few years" often became a lifetime. Tonight we hear a story from…
- Does Apologizing Make You Smaller? – Yunus Emre: The Crooked Wood and the Threshold
"Me, apologize? Never!" "I'm the one who's right, let them come." Many homes grow cold when both say at once: "Let the other bow first." We tell the legend of Yunus Emre: the question "Wheat or a blessing?" at Haji Bektash Veli's door, the perfectly straight firewood he carried to Taptuk Emre's…
- Does Your Home Feel Too Small? – Nasreddin Hodja: The Chickens, the Goat and the Donkey
"This house is too small for us." "The neighbors moved, and we're still here." A house is rarely narrow; what's narrow is the hearts inside. We tell a tale of Nasreddin Hodja: a villager living with eight people in a single room asks the Hodja for advice. First the Hodja says, "Take the chickens…
- Listen to This Before You Gossip – An Anatolian Tale: The Pillow Feathers
"Did you hear what's going on in their house?" "Don't tell anyone, but..." To destroy the peace of a home, sometimes a single sentence whispered through a crack in the door is enough. We tell a story they tell in Anatolia: a woman who spread gossip about her neighbor regrets it and goes to the…
- The Axe Wound Healed, the Word Wound Didn't – An Anatolian Tale: The Woodcutter and the Bear
"You're always like this!" "I wish I'd never married you!" A sentence spoken in anger lasts a few seconds; but in the other person's heart it sometimes stays a lifetime. We tell an old story from Anatolia: a woodcutter hosts his friend, the bear, at his home, then laughs at him in front of…
- The Real Reason Behind Family Fights: Rumi's 750-Year-Old Grape Story
What do you fight about most at home? The dishes, money, the kids? Tonight we listen to a tiny story from Rumi's Masnavi, told seven hundred and fifty years ago: four travelers who come to blows over a single silver coin. One said "engür", one "ineb", one "üzüm", one "istafil"... So why, when we…
- Don't Say "Look at the Neighbor's Son...": Saadi's 700-Year-Old Tale of a Prince
"Look, the neighbor's son came top of his class. Why can't you?" How many times have you heard that sentence, and how many times have you perhaps said it without noticing? Tonight we listen to a story from the Gulistan (The Rose Garden) by Saadi of Shiraz, written seven hundred years ago: the…
- Are You Raising Your Child for Other People? Nasreddin Hodja and the Donkey
"Shh, the neighbors will hear!" "Sit up properly, what will people say?" We have all heard these words, and we have all said them. But where is the child in them? Tonight we tell the famous story of Nasreddin Hodja, the wise jester of Anatolian folk tales, his son and a donkey: if the boy rides…
- Listen Before You Yell at Your Child: Dirse Khan and His Son Boghach from Dede Korkut
"Be quiet already! How many times do I have to tell you!" The yelling lasts a minute; the silence after it sometimes lasts for years. Tonight we listen to a story from the Book of Dede Korkut, the great epic of the Oghuz Turks: the story of Dirse Khan, who believes the whispers of the envious and…
- If You Protect Your Child From Everything, Listen: Rumi, the Chickpea and the Cook
"Nobody touch my child!" You do their homework, you settle their fights, you stop their crying straight away. But a child who never learns to fall never learns to get up either. We tell a story from Rumi's Masnavi: a chickpea boiling in a pot rebels against the fire. The cook answers with a smile…
- Always Fighting Over "Who's Right?" With Your Spouse? Nasreddin Hodja: You're Right Too
"How many times have I told you!" "No, that's not what you said!" Two people live through the same evening in one home, and the next day they tell it like two different stories. Neither of them is lying; each is looking out of their own window. We tell of a day when Nasreddin Hodja served as a…
- Do Your Spouse's Flaws Get Under Your Skin? Layla and Majnun: The Dog in the Street
"If only he were a bit tidier." "If only she didn't have that habit." Sometimes we read the person we married like a shopping list: this is ticked off, that is missing. But love keeps no list; it needs an eye that knows how to look. From Layla and Majnun (Turkish: Leyla ile Mecnun) we tell a…
- For Anyone Trying to Change Their Spouse – Nasreddin Hodja: Yogurt in the Lake
"It'll get better once we're married." "I'll change him." In the early years of marriage many of us become a bit of a stonemason: we try to chisel away at how our spouse talks, dresses, even laughs. Then both of us grow tired. We tell of the day Nasreddin Hodja stood on the shore of a lake…
- For Anyone Going Into Debt to Impress Others – Nasreddin Hodja: Eat, My Coat, Eat!
"Everyone's bought a new car except us." "What will people say if we have a simple wedding?" So many arguments at home aren't really about money; they're about who we spend it for. The phone on instalments, the wedding on a loan, the holiday on a card… and at the end of the month the home turns…
- Coldness Between Mother-in-Law and Daughter-in-Law? Dede Korkut: Selcan Hatun
"She took my son from me." "His mother interferes in everything." These two sentences are often spoken in two different rooms of the same house, and in the middle stands a man caught between the two people he loves. From the Book of Dede Korkut we tell the story of Kanturalı and Selcan Hatun…
- Fallen Out With Your Sibling Over an Inheritance? An Anatolian Tale: Two Brothers and the Wheat
"Father's house is mine." "I have a right to that field too." So many siblings grow up at one table, only to become strangers at a land registry. We tell a tale passed from mouth to mouth across Anatolia: two brothers split the wheat in half, then secretly carry sacks to each other's threshing…
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