A father understood his daughter’s love only after tasting food without salt.
Evidence
Years later the king came, as a traveling guest, to the very house where his lost daughter now lived — though he did not know her. She prepared him a great feast, dish after splendid dish — but she had ordered the cooks to put no salt in any of it. The king tasted the rich food and could not eat; everything was flat, dull, lifeless. ‘There is no savor in any of this,’ he complained. — , A Year of World Stories, 11109
Categorization
- XREF: The salt test echoes the folktale tradition of proving worth through humble necessity, similar to the moral about cheap indispensable things in the Bisotun passage. — connects to: A daughter’s love compared to salt proved wiser than her father grasped. — , A Year of World Stories, 11107
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- A daughter’s love compared to salt proved wiser than her father grasped. (similarity 0.86)
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