- Tale of the Enchanted King
My reaction:
I am really starting to question Shahrazad. A lot of the tales include unfaithful women, who in one case, enchant the king by turning him into stone. That will not teach King Shahrayar to trust women, and spare their lives. The story of the Enchanted King was odd, since a man could survive for so long with such a bad wound. Also, the enchanted king went to kill the black man, yet spared his wife. Which is different than what king Shahazman and Shahrayar did, since they killed the wife. Of course she has to be amazing at magic, and turn a man into stone. Which would get awkward if he needs to poop...since it's only his lower half. Just because her lover was injured, this woman has to transform a whole city into hills and a lake and the people into fish. So it would have been borderline cannibalism if the king had eaten the fish, which the cooks had made.
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