Azerbaijani fairy tales

They vary in context and subject and include tales from the heroic past of the Azerbaijani people and struggles with local and foreign oppressors.

The tales hand down ancient national traditions and customs whilst depicting the natural beauty of Azerbaijan; its green valleys and pastures, magnificent mountains, purling rivers and blossoming gardens.

[1] According to Horst Wilfrid Brands in Enzyklopädie des Märchens, there exists some connection between the narrative corpus of Azerbaijan and Turkey (even Turkmenistan).

For instance, there is a narrated tale about a monster-man who eats "two people and five thousand sheep" per day in Tepegoz's (a translation from Turkish – Cyclop) story.

[5] Seventeen national fairy tales of Azerbaijan and The Fox’s Pilgrimage[6] (parable by Abdulla Shaig) were included in the book.