ʿİsà the Prophet: some Turkish anecdotes not found in the Arabic tradition. Part 2.1. Talking objects and animals. Part 2.2. Miscellanous topics

The text below is the second instalment of a series devoted to the various “Märchen-Typen” in the Turkic ʿİsà corpus. While in the first part, which appeared in the previous issue of the COMSt Newsletter, I dealt in detail with the Long-living Worshipper story (s. also Appendix for some additional observations on this topic), the second is devoted to a series of stories featuring talking objects and animals, namely the Talking Frog and the Talking Mountain. It also includes two additional short miraculous narratives.