Arabian Folk and Fairy Tales

Arabian Folk and Fairy Tales were primarily used for entertainment of people who were illiterate. This resembles Kenyan stories because those stories were used as entertainment and as a way to bring people together. But the difference between Arabian stories and others is that there may be a moral, but it's not necessary. Authors like Charles Perrault often felt that there had to be a moral, so that readers would know right from wrong, but Arabian stories require one. They would pay to hear them and the storytellers were primarily poets and musicians who were men. They differ from other stories because they start with "It was or it wasn't" instead of the traditional "Once Upon a Time...". They also have a longer introduction, also known as the "mattress" of the story. The stories shed light onto human behavior and they vary in style, which can relate to the most of the different stories we've read so far. The most important think about these stories is that they are frame stories spinning into a web to tales. The stories normally originated or derived from tribal and national heroes. I found this interesting because most of the American or Kenyan stories are original in form and they don't come from other stories. Where in Arabian stories, when someone makes one story, the others may come from the same framework of it.