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Overview

Nukhudu springs from a bowl of broth after a woman wishes for a son to carry it to her husband. He names himself Master Pea and takes on a mission to recover a small debt from the king. Along the road he drinks an entire stream and carries a leopard, wolf and jackal inside his mouth after asking them to remove their teeth.

The animals defeat successive attempts to kill him, and his stored water extinguishes a fire. Admitted to the treasury, he swallows its valuables while displaying only the coin supposedly owed to his father. At home he releases the treasure and enriches the family. His pea origin and fantastic capacity are explicit; a fixed measured body size is not.

Pea child with an enormous carrying capacityNamed textual version
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Origins & earliest records

Kermani storytelling, Iran

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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

    D. L. R. Lorimer and E. O. Lorimer, collectors/translators · 1919

    Kermani tales; VIII, pp. 43–47

Family & connections

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Primary records and illustrations

Direct primary record

D. L. R. Lorimer and E. O. Lorimer, Persian Tales (London: Macmillan, 1919)

Kermani tales. Tale VIII, pp. 43–47

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.

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References

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  1. Historical translated folktaleD. L. R. and E. O. Lorimer, Persian Tales (1919), tale VIII, pp. 43–47Research access: 2026-10-05
  2. Historical editionOriginal 1919 scan: Internet Archive persiantales00loriialaResearch access: 2026-10-05

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