The Snake-Peri and the Magic Mirror

Ignac Kunos (1860–1945) was a Hungarian folklorist, linguist, turkologist. He was one of the most avowed scientists of Turkish dialectology and folk literature. He started his career focusing on the dialectology, phonological and morphological of the Hungarian language, and at university he started interesting in Turkish philology and language. After his trip at the Orient he collected Turkish fairy tales and published it in Forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales.

This is a Turkish fairy-tale that goes around a woodcutter and he wanted his son to go in his footsteps. He said that he could fell any tree in the wood except the one standing as the edge of the forest. So was the way his son began to live. But as the time went there remained less and less trees in the forest so he decided to fell it too...