Of Men and Dogs: An Unpublished Syriac Fairy Tale from the Late Medieval Period

Aramaic Studies. 2022. Vol. 20. No. 2. P. 196–212.

Minov S.

This article contains the unpublished Syriac text of the Story of the Dog Who Talked. Put down in writing by the West Syrian monk ʿAzīz bar Ṣlīḇā bar Bassūs in the year 1503, the Story is, arguably, the earliest datable specimen of the fairy tale genre of folklore attested in the Syriac language. The text of the Story, published on the basis of manuscript Mardin, Church of the Forty Martyrs, 350, is accompanied by an English translation and discussion.

Keywords: сказка, фольклор, фольклорный текст, fairy tales, волшебная сказка, сирийское христианство, Syriac christianity, fairytale, фольклор ассирийцев, written folklore

Publication based on the results of: The inner and outer dynamics of cultural processes in the Oriental societies and its traditional foundations: languages, history and religion (2022)