Reading Diary A: Turkish Fairy Tales

This is a Reading Diary that details my thoughts of the first section of Turkish Fairy Tales from the Turkish Fairy Tales unit. Story source: Forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales by Ignacz Kunos, with illustrations by Willy Pogany (1913).

• I love that in the story about the boy and fear it shows how in the end fear is just a concept.  You don't actually have to be afraid of anything. 
• This seems like an Achilles story.  Whereas Achilles is the greatest warrior until your hit his ankle this boy is the bravest person until you shock him with a little bird.  
• "They lived happily ever after."  Is this just the line that makes stories a fairy tale?
•  Turkish fairy tales have a lot of birds turning into women...
• Randomly turning them into a garden must be a thing too..
• That was the most extravagant "how I met my husband story" ever.  
• I totally caught that the woman was a fish because every animals in Turkish Fairy Tales turns into beautiful women. 
• He wants him to make a mule come out of an egg...
• This Arab is the MVP of the story.
• I love that this newborn infant was the one who talked some sense into the Ruler.
• In all of these stories Rulers always ask impossible task of their people.
• Of course the helpful crow was a beautiful maiden the entire time.  

(The Crow-Peri from the Untextbook.)