King Shahryar's Tale

Story of King Shahryar and his brother by all accounts is a story beginning a story. It begins with two brothers of a king ruling over their own perspective countries. Infidelity between Shah Zaman and his wife come to rise as he finds her in bed with another man, ultimately killing them both. Taking his mind off things he visits his brother King Shahryar, and witnesses more infidelity by his older brothers wife. Showing him the wild ways of his wife and setting out to think they come across a Jinni and his supposed “chastened” stolen bride.

After forcing the men to have their way with her (or she her way with them) the men conclude never to marry, women being pegged as evil. A virgin bride every night and a dead body to cart off in the morning, the Kings Wazir has nothing else to find his king but one of his own daughters. As smart as his daughter is her plight reminds him of the tale of the Bull and the Ass, another story inside a story.

The Bull and The ass is a story about a man who can understand animals. One day he overhears a ass tell a complaining bull to feign sickness in order to get a few days of rest. The ass is then put to work instead of the bull, and regrets the advice. So much so that he advises the Bull to work again less he be taken to the butcher and slaughtered.

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The farmer having heard this laughs and his wife demands to know what is so funny. Not wanting to tell her in fear he will be put to death she threatens to leave him so he gives in. Overhearing a rooster tell the dog a good beating will shut the wife up he does so and learns “family discipline”.

King Shahriyar

These two stories, without a doubt made me angry. All over infidelity of a woman, kill every woman after having taken her maidenhead? Is that the moral here, powerful man take what you like and the woman without scruples (a woman whom you married and you’ve taken) should be killed? The sad thing is some people still think this way, and justify (metaphorical) killing…