The Fisherman and the Jinni — Middle East & Persia (Well-Known) | Bedtime World Tour
Tonight we return to the Thousand and One Nights for one of the very first tales Scheherazade tells. An old fisherman casts his net four times a day and no more. The first three casts bring up a dead donkey, a pitcher of mud and a load of broken glass. The fourth brings up a sealed copper jar — and what comes out of it is three thousand years old, enormous, and in a very bad mood. All the fisherman has is that he can think, and that the jinni is in a hurry.
Arab tradition, from *One Thousand and One Nights* (*Alf Layla wa-Layla*), where it is the secondtop-level tale told by Scheherazade and…
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