Sesame klechdy

Six oriental fairy tales told by one of the most outstanding Polish poets and illustrated by one of the most important representatives of the Polish poster school.

The young Persian prince mounts his enchanted wooden steed and disappears into the clouds. Before he finds out how to land, he will fly as far as Bengal.

A fisherman catches a copper box from the sea when he opens it, it turns out that it was better not to.

An African wizard comes to China to find the only man who can extract a miraculous lamp from the underworld ...

Do you remember those stories?

One has to be very careful to listen to these fairy tales from beginning to end. They are fairy tales full of unexpected events and unheard of miracles. It is easy for an inattentive and incautious listener to get lost in them, just as a certain boy lost his way in the wizarding forest. At midnight, all the paths and roads of this strange forest began to jump and dance with laughter, and they ran away from the boy, tangled, as many times as he wanted to step on one of them with his foot in order to return home. You have to be very careful when you enter a fairy forest, or when you are listening to truly magical fairy tales. Even the Persian, Arab, and Indian kings exerted their royal attention as they were told these strange and terrible and strange and incomprehensible tales.

So we ask for silence, because here the story begins!

The text was prepared on the basis of the first edition (Krakow: J. Mortkowicza, 1913), with the omission of abbreviations and changes introduced in the editions published after the author's death. Inflection, spelling and punctuation have been modernized.