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Overview
A baker habitually feeds river fish with spoiled dough and burnt bread. A deceitful employer later strands him on a jewel-covered mountain. When he jumps into the river, the fish recognize him and form themselves into a raft, carrying him safely to shore. They do not similarly rescue the employer when he later falls into the same predicament.
Origins & earliest records
Bakhtiari storytelling, Iran
Records & interpretation
Complete tale and all continuation pages directly read; original edition contents checked for regional division and locators.
Selected bibliography
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Persian Tales
Bakhtiari tales; LVIII, pp. 344–346
Family & connections
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Primary records and illustrations
D. L. R. Lorimer and E. O. Lorimer, Persian Tales (London: Macmillan, 1919)
Bakhtiari tales. Tale LVIII, pp. 344–348
Complete narrative, including every continuation page, read; historical scan OCR contents confirms regional ordering. Individual narrator not supplied. Modern site presentation is not treated as a new authored tale.
References
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- Historical translated folktaleD. L. R. and E. O. Lorimer, Persian Tales (1919), tale LVIII, pp. 344–346Research access: 2026-10-05
- Historical editionOriginal 1919 scan: Internet Archive persiantales00loriialaResearch access: 2026-10-05
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