Little Muck (German fairy tale)

As a child, Muley knew a little person called Little Muck, who also lived in his home town Nicea in Turkey.

After the first 25 blows he told him the following story: Muck’s father Mukrah was a well-respected, but poor man, who lived as lonely as his son.

Shortly afterwards Muck found an accommodation and a new job in another town: he had to take care of the cats and dogs of a mysterious woman called Miss Ahavzi.

One day Muck entered a forbidden room in Miss Ahavzi's house and accidentally destroyed an expensive bowl.

These two items had, as it turned out, magical powers: With the pair of slippers, he could not only walk faster than any other person, but also fly to any place he wanted.

The king was impressed by Muck's magic slippers, and thus offered him a position as a courier, which made the other servants jealous of him.

Shortly afterwards he dressed up as a scholar and offered the king the second variety of figs as a remedy for his and his royal court’s deformities.

With the help of his magic slippers Little Muck flew back home and left the disloyal king with his deformed face behind.

"Muck became wise through experience and therefore he deserves admiration instead of mockery", Muley's father ended his narrative and spared his son the remaining half of the blows.

Similar to the Duke in "Dwarf Nose", the King is an incompetent ruler: after being tricked by his courtiers he seizes the magical items and expels Little Muck from the country.

Due to the hierarchy, the King eats most of them, and is thus punished even harder, because Little Muck refuses to give him the curing variety of figs.