1001 Nights and The First Shaykh’s Story.

Unfortunately, yet again I do not understand what the story is about. What I have summarized so far is there are two brothers traveling to another country and Shah kills his wife. In feeling guilty for what he did, he is feigned sick and is afraid to tell his brother what he did to his wife. Which is still interesting to me how he was able to draw and quarter the woman with one blow from his sword. Being drawn and quartered is a really painful process, if interested, try looking on the web because it would be a little too detailed for this blog. The story then gets a little interesting, the brothers wife comes out with 20 other women and then start having an orgy in the court yard while shah is watching from a balcony window. (Now I understand why 1001 Nights is a little sexy.. wow.) Seeing that his brothers wife was cheating on his brother with another man, Shah starts to feel better and eat, knowing that his life is not as messed up as everyone else. The part that starts to confuse me is when the brother says that it was OK to kill his own wife but then gets pissed when he finds out his own wife is cheating on him. Then they see a woman with the black man who laid with the wife and once the black man is asleep she talks to the brothers and takes their rings from then on, the rest of the story does not make any sense to me. Yes it was an interesting story but no, I do not understand it.

The First Shaykh’s Story.

The story tells of a girl changing the main characters son into a cow and the mother into a gazelle. From here the main character comes home sees the destruction and wants to kill the gazelle but she cry out and says no. The main character then moves on to kill the cow and the gazelle yells out yet again saying that you can not kill on the holiest of days. Then the main character calls for the heads man to do the killing but he refuses and that is the end of the story. Very strange story but none the less funny to read.