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Overview

The princess in the magic-turban tale travels seated on a golden buckler held on an efrit’s head. She addresses him as Lala. When the invisible youth jumps aboard, the additional weight nearly upsets them; the carrier notices the difference but cannot see its cause. He carries them through marvellous gardens to the Peri ruler’s palace and later takes the princess home. He is not the ruler who remains behind and is killed. His own subsequent fate is unstated, and the story does not describe him as omniscient merely because his travel is supernatural.

Golden buckler transportDetects invisible passenger’s weightSeparate court attendant
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Origins & earliest records

Turkish storytelling collected in Anatolia, through Hungarian and English publication

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Records & interpretation

Complete English narrative and concluding food footnote read, including retrospective explanation of the princess’s captivity.

Selected bibliography

Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.

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    Turkish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales

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

    “The Magic Turban, the Magic Whip, and the Magic Carpet,” pp. 102–111; footnote11 glosses pilaw. London: A.H.Bullen. Preface identifies the Hungarian1889 intermediary.

Family & connections

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Primary records and illustrations

Complete English narrative and attached note read

Turkish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales

Ignácz Kúnos / R.Nisbet Bain; London:A.H.Bullen,1901. The Magic Turban, the Magic Whip, and the Magic Carpet, pp.102–111; footnote11

Fullcachekunos-bain-9.txt,12253characters. Complete brothers/inheritedmagicobjects, invisiblejourney/gardens, mealinterference/killing, evidenceassembly and finalcoerciveenchantmentexplanationread. Periking/efritterminologyalternation scoped, carrierLala distinct. Humanhero givesmarriage/kingdomtoelderbrother ratherthanretainingbride. No source-languagecollation.

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References

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  1. Historical English folktale translation through HungarianKúnos/Bain1901, The Magic Turban, the Magic Whip, and the Magic CarpetResearch access: 2026-10-05

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