- The prince saves a frog from a snake one day but carves a piece of his flesh for the snake, so they both return to him in the form of humans to pay him their gratitude
- Could rewrite the story from the point of view of the frog Mukhless or the snake Khaliss and explain their frustration at the prince receiving all the glory of their good deeds
- The merchant's daughter only wanted to marry a man who was wise or skillful, so three men fought over her, each explaining their skill
- She was kidnapped by a fairy one day and the first used his skill to identify her, the second made a wooden horse that the third could ride to the mountain, shoot the fairy, and return her
- A Brahmin and princess met one day and instantly fell in love, but knew they could not be together, so the Brahmin sought a magician who gave him a magic ball that transformed him
- He took on the shape of a woman that the princess befriended and confided in, but when he took the ball out and explained, they ran away to another country to be together
- Could rewrite the story so that the magic ball did not transform the Brahmin back so he was stuck in the body of a woman
- A prince fell in love with a princess and he vowed to sever his head if she married him, so he did, but a Brahmin saw him and was afraid of being guilted, so he cut off his head too
- When the princess found them, she put the heads back on the bodies to revive them but accidentally put the wrong heads on the wrong bodies
- Could add to the story the point of view of the Brahmin or prince at discovering they had different bodies attached to their heads and the confusion that followed
- The merchant's daughter was so beautiful that he wrote to the king to marry her if he found her fitting, but his advisors worried he would neglect the country and told him not to marry her
- But one day he saw her and was shocked by her beauty, instantly falling in love, becoming sick with love, and then dying of grief that she was married to someone else
- A nobleman gave refuge to a snake being chased, but it quickly turned evil and told the nobleman he had been foolish for trusting his enemy and that he would bite him
- The nobleman tricked him into thinking another snake was coming and bashed his head
- Could change the story so that the nobleman and the snake actually become friends
- A soldier thought a goldsmith was his friend and entrusted him with a bag of gold he had found, but the goldsmith stole it and buried it in the ground, though he lied and said he didn't
- The soldier asked the Cazy, who interrogated him and knew he was lying, so he gathered the secret from the goldsmith's wife, uncovered the gold, and hanged the goldsmith
- A merchant received a vision that beating a brahmin with a stick would change him to gold, which came true, but then he tried to beat more brahmins and they bled instead
- The magistrate brought the merchant to court to ask him about this, which he explained, and then they banished the barber being a witness, but being mad as the merchant said
- Could tell the story of watching the merchant beat the first brahmin from the point of view of the barber himself
- An elephant knocked over a bird's nest of eggs so the bird, frog, and bee plotted to pluck the elephant's eyes out and lead him to a place he falls into and could not get out of
- The elk and ass were grazing into a garden they had sneaked into and the ass began braying and singing loudly so the gardener woke up and bound them both as prisoners
- A king fell in love with a woman and took her from her former husband and son, but she sneaked her son over as a servant and the king thought he was a lover
- When he found out he was her son, the king was elated and the mother and son were reunited
- When Miemun returned, the parrot told him everything, and he had Khojisteh killed
(The evil snake in the nobleman's sleeve. Photo from Pixabay)
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