Among the 35 Armenian stories gathered in this collection, you can find simple children's stories, "classic" stories about emperors, princesses and dragons, and those that were created on the basis of even older legends or Christian traditions.
After the flood, a fisherman and his wife live on an old ship. The sea has swallowed the land, the cities have sunk, and the fish have almost disappeared, so the fisherman and the woman are barely surviving.
About the origin of the short story The girl outsmarted the emperor by Vuk St. Karadžić says that it was sent to him by pop Vuk Popović from Risno in Boka Kotorska. About the short story Two Money, he says: "I heard it from a beggar in Novi Sad, but I wro