Stories I Heard From My Mother

Author: Prof Dr. Mine Erol

Design: Yahya Türkeli

Translation: Google/Gemini -Artificial Intelligence
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E-ısbn: 978-625-6020-49-8

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TALES WİTHİN

Three Frıends

The Haunted Mansıon

The Huge Gıant

The Leader Of The Henhouse

The Fox Wıth Glasses

Lazy Efe

The Greedy Fısh

Preface;

Author Mine Erol was born in 1929. In her childhood years, there were no visual and auditory tools such as radio, television, and the internet. Her mother would tell her tales passed down from generation to generation. She wrote down the ones she could not forget from these tales for you. Tales you will enjoy reading...

THREE FRIENDS

Three friends were playing ball. One of them kicked the ball so hard that it flew up and rolled down the hill, over the stream. All three of them ran after it to catch it. They finally caught the ball, but they were out of breath and very tired.

They lay down to rest under a tree and soon fell into a deep sleep. In their sleep:

They set out to return home. Three paths appeared before them. Each decided to take a different path. Whoever found the way would return and help the others.

One chose the path on the right. A cave appeared before him. The owls in the cave stared at him with their big eyes, making strange noises. The boy was scared. Still, he went on. Suddenly, he saw a light. He started running with all his might. The closer he got, the bigger the light grew. It was a cave door opening to the outside. He saw other children playing outside.

He went to them. The children took him to their village. He spent the night in the wise elder's house. In the morning, he asked for permission to help his friends. The wise man gave him a handkerchief, saying,

"This handkerchief will show you the way. If you encounter an obstacle, you can find your way by wiping it away with the handkerchief."

He took the handkerchief and set off. He traveled far and wide, over streams and hills...

*

The second child chose the middle path. After a while, he realized that no one had passed this way for a long time, as it was covered with cobwebs. Occasionally, huge spiders fell in front of him. Although he was scared, he went on. After a while, he came out of another cave door. But he was very tired. He lay down under a tree and fell asleep. After sleeping for a while, he woke up stretching. The tree was covered with chocolate. It was a chocolate tree. He ate his fill of chocolate. Soon, he became thirsty. He saw a fountain in the distance. He ran towards it, but the fountain disappeared. He saw water flowing from the mountain and ran towards it, but the water disappeared too. He ran towards the lake to drink water, but the lake was gone. He was so thirsty that he was about to faint.

"Oh! Oh! Where will I find water?" he thought deeply, and a fairy appeared before him. She handed him a bowl of water. He drank the water to his heart's content and felt relieved. The fairy said,

"Don't throw away this bowl! It will show you the way."

He set off to find his friends. He traveled far and wide, over streams and hills...

*

The third child took the left path. A very muddy road appeared before him. He fell and got up, covered in mud, and came out of another cave door. What did he see outside? Everywhere was full of rubies, emeralds, pearls, and diamonds. He was happy to be rich. But his happiness was short-lived. A dwarf appeared before him and said,

"Don't touch them! You will die. Leave here immediately! Your village is behind that mountain," and gave him two stones.

"When you rub these together, whatever you wish for will come true..." After saying this, the dwarf disappeared.

The child wondered how he would cross that huge mountain. Then he remembered the stones the dwarf had given him. He rubbed the two stones together. A huge eagle came and lifted him up into the air. The child was very scared. The trees below looked tiny. After crossing the mountain, the eagle dropped him to the ground and flew away.

He also traveled far and wide, over streams and hills...

*

While they were sleeping, a heavy rain started. When they got wet from the rain, they all woke up at once. They took shelter on the balcony of an empty house to avoid getting wet.

They started telling each other about the nightmares and fears they had seen in their dreams, and laughed and had fun...

The end of the story...

THE HAUNTED MANSION

In a city, there lived a vizier. People would cook and bring him food to curry favor. One man cooked a casserole, but an unfortunate incident occurred. A mouse fell into the casserole. Not knowing what to do, he went to the ironer to seek advice.

"I cooked a casserole for the vizier, but a mouse fell into it. What should I do?" he asked.

The ironer said, "I iron clothes, I don't know."

Then the man went to the tailor and asked the same question.

The tailor said, "I sew clothes, I don't know."

The man went around to all the tradesmen, asking what he should do. No one had any advice. Finally, he went to the judge. When he asked what he should do, the judge said, "Grab it by the tail and throw it out!"

So he did just that and took the casserole to the vizier. The vizier always had the people who brought the food taste it first. When it was the man's turn, the vizier wanted him to taste it first. The man was confused and didn't know what to do. He clumsily dropped the dish. The casserole broke, and the food spilled all over the floor. The vizier was very angry. He made the man clean up the mess and then fined him ten gold coins, to be paid within a week. If he couldn't pay the gold, he would go to jail. The man sadly set off to return to his town. As he was passing by a restaurant, the head chef at the door was trying to attract customers, saying,

"Welcome, sir! Welcome, my lord!"

The man went into the restaurant. He was very hungry, so he ate his fill and got up to leave. Just as he was about to exit, the restaurant owner grabbed him by the neck, saying he couldn't leave without paying for his meal. The man was very surprised.

"You invited me in, my lord. So I came in and sat at the table," he said.

As they were arguing, a gentleman sitting in the corner offered to pay for the man's meal and called him over.

"I need a coachman. Would you be willing to do that?" he asked.

The man immediately accepted because he had to pay the vizier ten gold coins in a week. The next day, he got into the carriage and set off towards the town. After the carriage had traveled a short distance, the horses reared up and threw the man off the carriage. The man fell into a pit. He climbed out of the pit and looked around, but there was no sign of the horses or the carriage. He started to worry. How would he pay the ten gold coins? Lost in thought, he continued towards the town. As evening fell, he decided to spend the night in a nearby village since the town was far away. He couldn't find anyone to take him in as a guest. He came across an old man who took pity on him.

"There's a haunted mansion up ahead. Everyone is afraid of the ghosts, so no one stays there," the old man said. The man preferred to sleep in the haunted mansion rather than in the cold outside.

The old

THE HUGE GIANT

THE LEADER OF THE HENHOUSE

THE FOX WITH GLASSES

LAZY EFE

THE GREEDY FISH