The Dragon-Prince and the Step-Mother

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 Dragon-Prince and the Step-Mother” is a fairy tale from the Forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales collected and published by Ignác Kúnos in 1913. There was a Padishah who was sad because he had no children. He was jealous of Dragon who flew in the sky with his offspring. He said what it would be better if this dragon had one less, but he had got a child. How could influence this thoughtless words on a Padishah and his future son? Will be somebody able to help them?