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Keloğlan and the Magic Stone
By Anonymous Turkish folk taleAges 6-8About 7 minutes
Keloğlan finds a whispering stone among the roots of a great plane tree and follows it to the water his thirsty village has been waiting for.
How it begins
In a small village up in the mountains, in the shade of a great plane tree, there lived a cheerful boy called Keloğlan. He lived with his grandmother Nene in a little single-storey house that looked onto the village square. That year, in the middle of summer, the village well had run low and the gardens had begun to turn yellow.
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