Little Hyacinth's Kiosk

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 Turkish fairy-tale is collected and retold by Ignac Kuno and it tells us about a Padishash whose son was extremely handsome. The years passed and one day the time for grief came to the royal family — the Padishah got ill and died. To release his grief the young ruler decided to go somewhere with his lala and eventually they came to an exceptionally beautiful place. The new Padishah liked the place and decided to arrange a kiosk there to spend his free time. But then they met an old man who told them that there was a kiosk not far away that belonged to a maiden called 'Little Hyacinth'.