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Overview

In “The Golden-Haired Children,” the Queen of the Peris claps her hands and summons a figure she calls her Lala, glossed by the translator as counsellor. His upper lip reaches the sky while his lower lip sweeps the earth. Asked to bring her father’s horse, he vanishes with hurricane-like speed and returns almost immediately with it. This is a brief individual court-service episode, without a personal name or further fate. The English account racialises his human-like appearance; that description is not a real-world people category and does not independently identify him as a Jinn.

Summoned by clappingExtravagant lip dimensionsSwift retrieval of a horse
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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 tale, its footnote and edition preface read.

Selected bibliography

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    Turkish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales

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

    “The Golden-Haired Children,” pp. 53–73; footnote9 glosses Lala as counsellor. London: A. H. Bullen. English through the Hungarian1889 edition, as stated in the July1896 preface.

Family & connections

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Primary records and illustrations

Complete English tale and attached footnote read

Turkish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales

Ignácz Kúnos / R. Nisbet Bain; London: A. H. Bullen, 1901. The Golden-Haired Children, pp. 53–73; footnote9

Full cache kunos-bain-5.txt,27041characters. All infant substitution/goat fosterage, three quests, actual petrification/release, horse timing, mother recovery and final differentiated punishments read. Boy/sister humanmarkedchildren notnewrace; servantnotautomaticallyJinn. Mother’s death notnarrated, king final “as if turned to stone” onlysimile. Originals/printedscans uncollated.

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  1. Historical English folktale translation through HungarianKúnos/Bain1901, The Golden-Haired ChildrenResearch access: 2026-10-05

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