The Beautiful Helwa Maiden

Ignác Kúnos (originally Ignác Lusztig; 12 October 1860 – 12 January 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.

“The Beautiful Helwa Maiden” is a fairy tale from the Forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales collected and published by Ignác Kúnos in 1913. A long time ago was a poor combmaker. At one day he became rich by his combs., and went with his wife and son  to Padishah palace, leaved a daughter at home in the care of hadja. What would do the combmaster's envious men with the girl who stayed at home almost along? Could she save herself? What a future she would have?