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Watayo Faqir (Sindhi: وتايو فقير ) is a legendary character from Sindh, Pakistan.Many fables based on his wisdom and philosophy that are widely spread, and are told at "Katcheri" (traditional gatherings) and are told to children in Sindhi Folklore.
According to Alberts, Elkind, and Ginsberg the personal fable "is the corollary to the imaginary audience.Thinking of themselves as the center of attention, the adolescent comes to believe that it is because they are special and unique.” [1] It is found during the formal operational stage in Piagetian theory, along with the imaginary audience.
The phenomenon stems from egocentrism and is closely related to another topic called 'personal fable' (personal fable involves a sense of uniqueness). Imaginary audience effects are not a neurological disorder, but more a personality or developmental stage of life.
Sindhi folklore (Sindhi: لوڪ ادب) is composed of folk traditions which have developed in Sindh over many centuries.Sindh thus possesses a wealth of folklore, including such well-known components as the traditional Watayo Faqir tales, the legend of Moriro, the epic tale of Dodo Chanesar and material relating to the hero Marui, imbuing it with its own distinctive local colour or flavour in ...
A number of proverbs derive from the story, with the general meaning of being to blame for one's own misfortune. They include the Hebrew 'the axe goes to the wood from whence it borrowed its helve,' [2] of which there are Kannada [3] and Urdu [4] equivalents, and the Turkish 'When the axe came into the Forest, the trees said "The handle is one ...
As to the passing of personal fable, Elkind's idea was drawn from Erikson's (1959) stages of psychosocial development. An establishment of what Erikson called "intimacy" [ 5 ] could account for the elimination of personal fable, because during the process of establishing "intimacy", adolescents have to constantly adjust their imaginary ...
The Urdu Dictionary Board (Urdu: اردو لغت بورڈ, romanized: Urdu Lughat Board) is an academic and literary institution of Pakistan, administered by National History and Literary Heritage Division of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. Its objective is to edit and publish a comprehensive dictionary of the Urdu language.
The moral given the story was generally to distrust a foe and hold fast to friends, but in the Syntipas version it was later given a political turn: "This fable shows that the same is true of cities and people: when they are in agreement with one another, they do not allow their enemies to defeat them, but if they refuse to cooperate, it is an ...