Reading Notes: Tales of a Parrot

This starts out as a parrot that can make prophecies. Parrots are an obvious choice for fortune tellers as they are one of the few animals that can mimic human speech. I may change this to a crow since they can also mimic speech and I just really like crows.

If I want to fit in not only the background information but also probably 3 of the stories from this collection I will have to make each section very short. I will need: Introduction -> Story 1 -> Story 2 -> Story 3 -> Conclusion. This will probably take the full 1000 words.

I'm also thinking, rather than an adulterer, this will be a story of a captured young girl, who begs the crow at the window to her room to tell her stories. The crow, being gentle and kind, obliges and tells her stories every night before she sleeps until, in the end, she is rescued.

I'll use the story of the carpenter, goldsmith, taylor, and hermit for one story. The beginning will stay mostly the same but in the end, rather than a tree saving the wooden woman, I think she will simply refuse to be kept prisoner by any of them and will disappear into the night. This should give the imprisoned girl hope for escape.

The Fowler, the Parrot, and her young ones is another tale of imprisonment. These go nicely with my original theme so I will probably use this one unless I find a better one later in the text.

For the third story I will probably look through the second half of the reading tomorrow.

(Manuscript containing Tales of the parrot, 18th century, RCP archives) 

 The Tooti Nameh or Tales of a Parrot, by Ziya'al-Din Nakhshabi (1801)