Ran across an 1897 book published in London entitled “The Diamond Fairy Book” with a story by “the Persian”…

It is common to see Iranian stories with life-lessons in 19th or early 20th century Western literature… that is not the case in 21st century given Mainstream Globalists have thrown Iran under a mask—a foreign regime called Islamic Republic… so that anything Iranian (the Avestan-Aryan branch of Indo-European peoples) would be eradicated… this is further seen as how Mainstream Media refers to the historical Persian Gulf as FAKE GEOGRAPHY “Arabian Gulf”…or just “the Gulf” as if it’s the only gulf in the world… cultural ancestry connections are mutually incompatible to globalism…

…the same Globalists who several decades ago supported the rise of Islamic mullahs in Iran through the unholy alliance of the Red-Black (Communism/Lefitst-Islamist) are playing the same game in America…since 1979, Iranians have faced the destruction and rewriting of their history and ancestral memories by Islamists and their Western Leftist supporters (Mainstream) (see my 2009 article on history books K-12 under Islamic Republic regime linked here http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2009/me_iran0727_09_15.asp)… so-called Mainstream scholars and experts on West Asia (Fake Geography "Middle East") and Iran affairs are often Islamocentric... this is now becoming a shared experience between Iranians and Americans with recent reports https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/15/u-va-students-faculty-deeply-offended-by-university-president-quoting-thomas-jefferson-the-schools-founder/?utm_term=.de1b925121e7

…I digress…

...back to the 1897 story… Iranian elements in “The prince and the lions” story are abound such as the protagonist prince who must prove his worth of kingship by overcoming a test of wits/skills, a Vizier (Iranian kings argued their best treasure was a capable and trustworthy advisor), events in threes, music, traveling and meeting others who are hospitable, falling in love with a princess, having to earn a union with the princess, facing one’s greatest fear or weakness (the Iranian concept of “slaying the dragon” as adopted by others politically, religiously, and philosophically), proving one’s courage in line with deeds of heroic ancestors, and fulfilling one’s destiny in pursuit of happiness…

…this 1897 Iranian-themed story also ended with an Iranian proverb—“Never run from the lion”…

[pic Gutenberg: “The Diamond Fairy Book” (1897) … for educational purposes only]