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    THE FORTUNE TELLER - A Turkish Gypsy Story: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 432
    THE FORTUNE TELLER - A Turkish Gypsy Story: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 432
    THE FORTUNE TELLER - A Turkish Gypsy Story: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 432
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    THE FORTUNE TELLER - A Turkish Gypsy Story: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 432

    By Anon E. Mouse and Narrated by Baba Indaba

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    ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 432
    In this 430th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Turkish Fairy tale of “The Fortune Teller”.
    A long, long time ago in Turkey there was once a widow who had three daughters. One spun cotton, the others sewed, and thus they earned their daily bread.

    Once these girls saw a gipsy passing along the street, and said to each other: "Let us have our fortunes told." All agreeing, they called the old woman, who, having had her hand crossed with silver, said to the eldest of the sisters: "Thy kismet is at the bottom of a well." To the middle sister she said: "Thy kismet is in the cemetery"; and to the youngest she said: "Thy kismet is in shame." Having uttered these ominous words, the gipsy disappeared.

    One day while the eldest girl was spinning, her thread broke, the spindle flew up ward, then fell and rolled over and over until it suddenly disappeared down the well. "Oh dear!" she exclaimed, "my spindle is in the well; help me to recover it." Her sisters bound a rope round her body and let her down the well……..

    What happened next you ask…? Did the rope break and did she manage to be pulled out of the well, or did something else entirely happen? And what of their Kismet (karma,      fate, destiny, fortune?) To find the answers to these questions, and any others you may have, you will have to download and read this story to find out!

    INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES

    Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".

    BUY ANY of the 430+ BABA INDABA CHILDREN’S STORIES at https://goo.gl/65LXNM

    10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.

    Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story. HINT - use Google maps.

    KEYWORDS/TAGS: Baba Indaba, Children’s stories, Childrens, Folklore, Fairy, Folk, Tales, bedtime story, legends, storyteller, fables, moral tales, myths, happiness, laughter, maidens, mother, daughters, kismet, cemetery, well, shame, spin, cotton, sew, maiden, youth, well, sister, Sultana, girl, physician, knife, youngest, parents, disappeared, forty, night, peri, tomb, marriage, Shahzada, cemetery, spindle, pillows, Prince, kismet, bottom, eldest, consciousness, peri-maiden, Padishah, fortunes, lovely, beautiful, gipsy, lokma, daughter-in-law, eavesdropper, stupefying, consent, midnight, creature, pleasure, merchant, shahzada, feredje, karma, fate, destiny, fortune, sell, needles, wedding, palace, kindly, mortal, royal, King, Queen, Padishah, bones,  shame, rose, moon, sun, bey
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbela Publishing
    Release dateJun 5, 2018
    ISBN9788828332541
    THE FORTUNE TELLER - A Turkish Gypsy Story: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 432

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      THE FORTUNE TELLER - A Turkish Gypsy Story - Anon E. Mouse

      THE FORTUNE TELLER

      A Turkish Fairy Tale

      Baba Indaba Children’s Stories

      Published By

      Abela Publishing, London

      2017

      THE FORTUNE TELLER

      Typographical arrangement of this edition

      ©Abela Publishing 2017

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      Abela Publishing,

      London, United Kingdom

      2017

      Baba Indaba Children’s Stories

      ISSN 2397-9607

      Issue 432

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