Peri queen of the Crow-Peri tale

Overview

The unnamed queen in “The Crow-Peri” rules the forty Peris encountered at a coastal mountain and owns the beautiful bird sold to the Padishah. A young fowler lures her aboard a specially equipped ship and departs while she bathes. Her distress at finding herself at sea is explicit, even though the story later celebrates her marriage to the ruler. Her presence makes the formerly silent bird sing. A subsequent dangerous illness is cured by medicine fetched from her own palace, whose Peris recognise why it is needed. She then reveals that she had changed a negligent serving-maid into the helpful crow, and her forgiveness restores that maid’s damsel form. The account provides neither a personal name for this queen nor grounds to identify her with the separately narrated Peri queens elsewhere in the collection.

Origins & earliest records

Turkish storytelling collected in Anatolia, through Hungarian and English publication

Records & interpretation

Complete English tale and ending read, with its attached footnote where present.

Selected bibliography

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1. 01

   Turkish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales

   Ignácz Kúnos (collector); R. Nisbet Bain (translator from Hungarian) · 1901

   “The Crow-Peri,” pp. 134–142. London: A. H. Bullen, 1901; English through the Hungarian collection, not direct source-language collation.

Family & connections

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References

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1. Historical English folktale translation through HungarianKúnos/Bain 1901, The Crow-PeriResearch access: 2026-10-05

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