Re: Folk Love stories of Afghanistan
Muqa, you don’t know know the half of it. 
Many of our fairytales have a slightly melancholy note.
My grandmother told me about another one, Ningola and Begum Jan, and it’s equally…unusual. In short, it ends with several people getting killed in revenge for past wrongdoings and in the woman dying of heartbreak. It’s quite interesting though because it had a supernatural element to it. The guy in the story is not a human, but a shaperai (rather like the male form of pari).