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Overview

A prince finds the princess concealed in the one orange that cries out when he tries to cut it. After escaping her supernatural pursuers, he opens the fruit and leaves her waiting in a tree. An impostor murders her, but her spilled blood produces a fragrant rose tree. When the tree is made into a cradle and then burned, a neighbor rescues some of the moving wood and has it made into a box.

The box becomes the princess, who secretly cleans the neighbor’s house. Discovered, she remains in human form and is reunited with the prince. When asked whether she is jinn, peri or human, she evades the classification. The transformations preserve one character, rather than establishing separate rose and box species.

Fruit-hidden princess who returns through rosewoodSpecific translated narrative
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Origins & earliest records

Kermani storytelling, Iran

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Records & interpretation

Complete XXII, pp. 135–147, directly read in original-edition OCR; regional contents checked.

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    Persian Tales

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

    Kermani tales; XXII, The Story of the Orange and Citron Princess, pp. 135–147

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Direct primary record

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

Kermani tales. XXII, pp. 135–147

Full narrative read in cached original-edition OCR, including the final reunion and punishment. Page headers and contents checked. No unsupported Persian spelling supplied; human racial caricature not adopted.

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  1. Historical translated folktaleLorimer, Persian Tales (1919), XXII, pp. 135–147Research access: 2026-10-05

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