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The word qissa is an Arabic word meaning epic legend or a folk tale. The Punjabi language is famous for its rich literature of qisse , most of the which are about love, passion, betrayal, sacrifice, social values and a common man's revolt against a larger system.
Umro Ayyar or Amar Ayyar is a fictional character, an ayyār, [a] in Tilism-e-Hoshruba, an Urdu recension of the Islamic epic Hamzanama (originally in Persian). He was first written about during the time of Mughal Emperor Akbar and many stories and novels have been written about him since.
Jamasp tells the townspeople where Shahmaran lives, according to the legend Shahmaran says, "blanch me in an earthen dish, give my extract to the vizier, and feed my flesh to the sultan." [13] They bring her to the town and kill her in a bath called, "Şahmaran Hamam". [10] The king eats her flesh and lives, the vizier drinks the extract and dies.
Hudhud (English: Hoopoe, Arabic: الهدهد, Turkish: Ibibik, Persian: هدهد, Urdu: ہوپو / ہد ہد) was, according to the Quran, the messenger and envoy of the prophet Sulayman. It refers to the sagacious birds in Islam , also referred to in The Conference of the Birds , a Persian poem by Attar of Nishapur as the "king of birds". [ 1 ]
Book cover of Tales of the Punjab by Flora Annie Steel. Academic folkloristic research into and the collecting of the large corpus of Punjabi folktales began during the colonial-era by Britishers, such as Flora Annie Steel's three papers on her studies of local Punjabi folktales (1880), with a translation of three fables into English, [2] Richard Carnac Temple's The Legends of the Punjab (1884 ...
Sassui Punnhun [a] or Sassi Punnu [b] is a traditional Sindhi, Balochi, [1] [2] and Punjabi tragic folktale.Set in Sindh and Makran, the tragedy follows the story of a faithful lover who endures many difficulties while seeking her beloved husband who was separated from her by rivals.
Odiyan (Malayalam: ഒടിയൻ, odèan) or Odian, Peony was once used in the rural areas of Kerala to describe a group of people who claimed to be capable of scaring people to death using Odividya (ഒടിവിദ്യ) . [1] [2] Odiyan is a legendary character who existed in Kerala. [3]
Tomb of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, also known as Jhulelal Qalandar, in Sindh, Pakistan.. He is called Lal ("ruby-coloured") because he used to wear red color attire, red was his favorite color; [7] "Shahbaz" to denote a noble and divine spirit and "Qalandar" as he was a wandering spiritual man.