The Magic Hair-Pins

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 magic Hair-Pins" 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 Padishah who had an exceptionally daughter. One day an Arab caught a glimpse of her and immediately fell in love. How could he get her attention? Will he be able to achieve his goal?

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