Nasreddin Hodja is the name of the wise fool in so many Turkish tales, and tales beyond Turkey through the Middle East and North Africa and far into the Balkans, into Russia, as far as India and China…
Hodja Nasreddin had a lamb that was now fully grown. His neighbours came.
‘Nasreddin Hodja, your sheep is fat. Let us go and slaughter it by the river. The sun is shining. We will have a feast!’
‘I don’t think so,’ said Nasreddin.
‘But, Nasreddin, haven’t you heard? The world is going to end tomorrow!’
‘The world is going to end…? Very well.’
And they led the sheep down to the
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