Reading Notes: Tales of a Parrot, Part B

The story Of a King and his Sons really stood out to me because of how the snake and the frog were able to take human forms. The snake wanted to repay the human because he fed him a piece of his flesh and he turned into a human named Khaliss, who ended up sucking the poison out of the King's daughter who was bit by a snake. The frog also took human form with the name Mukhless, which means candid. In his frog form, he jumped into a pond and brought out a ring for the prince to propose to his girl. Both of the animals showed respect to the humans. At the end of the story, both the frog and the snake (in human form) confess who they actually are to the prince, who to my surprise wasn't shocked when he heard they were actually a snake and a frog. 

The Prince

(Photo from: Of a King and his Sons)

Bibliography: Tales of a Parrot by Ziya'al Din Nakhshabi