Storytelling: Week 5: The Days Of Our Lives in Georgia

Narrator: Last week on The Days Of Our Lives in Georgia..... The kings counsellor, Stefan, wanted to test the loyalty and love of his wife, Daniella, and King Aaron so he killed one of the kings goats and served it to his wife for dinner. After the King realized he was missing a goat he sent out a reward of gold for any man who finds the thief and marriage for any woman who finds him.

King Aaron: Oh hello Daniella! How are you and Stefan? Where is he?

Daniella: That is actually what I wanted to talk to you about... King Aaron, Stefan is the one who stole your goat. He fed it to me last night and confessed to me that it belonged to you after our meal.

King Aaron: What? Stefan? That is very troubling news.  Now I have to execute him. That is not something I want to do because he is the best counsellor I have ever had.

Daniella: ...but we are still getting married? Right?

King Aaron: Um yes, that was the reward. I am still in shock about Stefan. I can not do the execution I will need another man in my court to do the execution. *yells* HAROLD!

Harold: Yes King Aaron?

King Aaron: I need you to execute my counsellor Stefan for the crime of stealing from the King.

Narrator: Little did the king know, Stefan and Harold were very good friends. Stefan told Harold about his plan to test the loyalty of the king and his wife. Harold let him leave the city and executed a criminal in his place. Many months had passed and the kingdom was starting to fall apart.

The Sad King

King Aaron: This place is a disaster. I have no idea what I am doing. I wish Stefan was still my counsellor.

Daniella: who?

King Aaron: STEFAN! Your ex husband and the best counsellor this kingdom had. We need someone like him to come.

Narrator: Harold overheard this news and went to tell Stefan the exciting news.

Stefan: The king said what? He wants me back?

Harold: Yes, if you go back and explain everything the king might take you back as his counsellor.

Narrator: Stefan ran back to the kingdom to see the the king overwhelmed with excitement and didn't even ask for an explanation.

King Aaron: I am so excited you are back and your work is worth way more than any goat.

Stefan: I did not actually cook the goat, I hid him in the kitchen and cooked one of mine instead, I was testing the loyalty of my wife, which is obviously something she lacked.

King Aaron: I know, she is not a great wife and I know she's been spending the kingdoms wealth for her own pleasures. I do not want her alive anymore...

Narrator: Tune in next week to see the plans unravel as the king and Stefan work together to end Daniella.


Authors Notes: This Soap Opera script story is based off the Georgian story "The Kings Counsellor."  I chose this story because it has a lot of drama in it with betrayal, execution and regrets. In the original story the wife does betray the counsellor and the king orders him to be executed and then regrets it. In this one I made the counsellors wife a little more heartless than the original story because she doesn't play huge part, but I assume she was not a great person. I chose the picture of the sad king because he seemed to be the one who was very upset about the execution, especially since he was the one who has him to be executed.

Reading Diary: Georgian Continued

The Strong Man and The Dwarf 
There was a very strong giant in the kingdom who could over power everyone and a small dwarf challenged him to a fight. The dwarf tricked the giant into thinking he was strong and they became friends and didn't fight. The dwarf continued to trick the giant into thinking he was strong throughout their friendship.
The Grasshopper and the Ant
The grasshopper and ant were good friends and they tried to cross a river where the any was caught in the current and drowning. This sent the grasshopper on the wild goose chase to get bristles to save the ant. By the time he was able to get all the things his friend was dead. This teaches the lesson help is only good in if it is done in time.
The King and the Sage
A beloved king asked his people to propose him with a question that would only be answered by "That is impossible." On the first two days nobody could stump the king but on the 3rd day a man proposed many questions. These questions all answered by, "That is possible," lead up to a final question that stated the kings father owed the man's father money. The king had to answer the question "That is impossible," and he laughed and gave the man many gold coins.
Teeth and No Teeth 
The Shah offered a splendid meal to the hungriest people in his village. Two men, an old man and a young man, came up and both said they have not eaten in three days. While they were eating both of them started weeping. When the king asked why the old man replied that he had no teeth and was sad watching the young man eat up all the food because he can chew. The young man replied that he was sad watching the old man eat all the food because he can swallow it whole.
The Fool's Good Fortune
There were three brothers and one of them was a fool and never knew what to say. He was beaten for saying the wrong things in bad situations. He then was in a tree with a bell where robbers were meeting. He knew he had to outsmart the robbers to take their money. He did and he built three palaces.
Two Losses
During a great storm a skipper was giving orders but a learned man could not understand him. The scholar said the skipper should have spent more time learning to speak correctly. The boat sprung a leak, so the skipper asked the scholar if he could swim and he replied no. The skipper told him he should've spent more time learning to swim.
The Story of The Dervish 
A man was told to go talk to the Dervish to hear some crazy stories. The dervish was sitting with an ass and a she-ass and started telling his story. He caught his wife cheating with their neighbor, but his wife turned him into a dog, and somehow he became the protector of the princess. Swans would attack her and the dog killed ten out of eleven swans and the eleventh said that she would help with his situation with his wife. The swan turned him back into a man and said he could whip his wife and turn her and his neighbor into any beast. He turned them into an ass and a she-ass.
The Fathers Prophecy 
A father told his son that he would never become a good man. The son grew up to be a pasha and ordered to see his father, who was a sick old man. The pashas men dragged his father to him where he confronted him and said that he is now a good man because he is a pasha. The father replied that he not a good man because of the way he retrieved him.
The Kings Counsellor
The king's counsellor wanted to test the love and loyalty of the king and his wife. The counsellor stole a royal goat and cooked it for his wife. The king said he would marry any women who found the thief of the goat and the counsellors wife turned him in and the counsellor was supposed to be executed, but he ran away. The king started to miss the hard work of the counsellor and the friend told him and he came back.

Goat 

The Hermit Philosopher 

There was a philosopher who spent most of his time outside and he wondered about natures symmetry. He asked why walnuts grow on bug trees and pumpkins and melons grow just on vines in the ground then he fell asleep under the walnut tree. A small nut fell on his nose and he understood nature, because if it was a pumpkin it would've crushed his head. 

Reading Diary: Week 5: Georgia

Master and Pupil 
A father and son play tricks on people by the son turning into talented animals. Then the father would sell the animal retrieve the money and start walking away, but when the son got a chance he would break away from the people who just bought him tun back into a boy and catch up with his father. When someone bought him as a horse, they shut him in so he couldn't escape. He then turned into a mouse and escaped but his new owner turned into a cat and chased him, this went on and on until he became a needle and the man chasing him was a thread and then he rolled into a fire killing the thread and the boy returned home to his father.
Fate
A young handsome prince went out to find out his fate. When he did it said that he was going to marry a weavers daughter who had been sick for 9 years and the prince did not like that very much and decided to change his fate. He found the weavers daughter and stabbed her in the heart and left money and fled the house of the weaver. One day when he was out hunting he saw a beautiful women and married her. After they were wed he put his hand on her heart feeling a scar where she explains that she was stabbed by a young man who visited their family and they bought a mansion with the money he left.
The Serpent and The Peasant 
A very nice king saw a vision of a fox hanging from the ceiling and asked all the people in the land to come help interpret it. A peasant coming from far away passed a serpent that told him that the vision meant the land was full of deceivers and asked him to bring back half the reward. The king had two more visions that the peasant and serpent helped with and only the final time the peasant shared his rewards.
The Two Brothers 
Two brothers were going on a journey and had 10 loaves of bread each and one of the brothers told his brother to share his half now and they will eat the rest later, but he left and then made them go separate ways. The brother with no bread went to hide in a hopper where he heard stories where he could get great wealth from a bear, wolf and a jackal. He went and became wealthy and when his brother heard of this he went to that same hopper where the bear, wolf and a jackal killed the brother.
The King and The Apple
A dying king gave his son a coffer and told him to only use it when he was in danger while hunting in the east. When the boy was hunting in the east he went into a tower where twelve men with drawn swords who said they were going to cut off his head. He opened the coffer and an apple rolled out and told him three riddles that the boy got correct.

Talking Apple 

The Three Precepts 
A young man was a slave to a clever man for three years and learned three lessons: 1.) Throw everything you find into the yard, 2) Never lend anything to anyone, and 3) Don't tell secrets to a woman. When he was released from his three years he found a snake and there it into his yard and this snake laid precious stones and made the man wealthy. The women forced the man to tell her his secret and he did and then another man asked to borrow a knife. With this knife he killed and robbed someone and the young boy was to blame because it was his knife.
The Cunning Old Man and The Demi 
There was a lazy old man who was kicked out of his home for not helping with the work. He reached a river where there was a demi and the old man tricked him into thinking he was more than just a regular man and was able to get the demi to carry him across the river and feed him. The man once again tricked him into thinking he could eat a lot so the demi told his jackal and wolf friends about the old man and when they arrived to the old man he tricked the demi again and the demi was turned into dust.
The Sheperd Judge 
There was a sheperd that spoke very well and the king told him that he should be a judge and he was if they took his eyes then he would be a judge so they took his eyes. A man and a women came to him as a judge and told him about how the man stole a calf from the woman. The judge ruled that the calf was the woman's and then he got his eyesight back.
The Priest's Youngest Son 
Once there was a dying priest with three sons, and asked then to read the psalter when he was gone. The oldest two didn't, but the youngest son did and received three horses from this. With one of the horses he was able to retrieve the princess and he married her. He also retrieved milk for his mother in law and healed her illness.
Mingrelian Proverbs 
There are 28 Mingrelin proverbs.