Folk Love stories of Afghanistan

[muqawwee123]

Re: Folk Love stories of Afghanistan

@Mezhgan

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 human, but a shaperai (the male form of pari).

Interesting story.

I think killing of a person by his lover was new feature in Sher Alam and Maimoona, as all the famous love stories of sub-continent (mentioned in OP) lack this. In Moomal Rano (which belongs to areas which are now Karo Kari affected), Rano saw Moomal with another male (which was in fact Moomal’s sister in disguise of a man), but he didn’t kill her. Based on this behavior of Rano, cultual scholars concluded that Karo Kari is an imported custom in Sindh.