In the early stages of the Sharing Stories project, we looked to what other projects had done successfully to generate understanding and discussion around folk tales. We found out about the Timeless Tales project, which had been collecting Syrian folk tales in particular, generally within refugee camps. We used one of these previously collected stories - The King's Daughter's Earring, to share and explain the type of tale we were looking for, and heard a blended variation in return.
What immediately struck us, given that we were looking for connections, was that this story seemed to share the symbolism of the ring and the fish that we know from the story of Saint Mungo of Glasgow - so we decided it would fit nicely with our developing river / water theme.
An Arabic language version is available on youtube.
