A13 Am I Dead?
Yulia Davudi of ⁺Hassar ⁺Baba-čanga in Sydney, Australia
Again, mullah Nasradin goes and says to his wife ‘If I die, what would happen to my body?’ She says ‘What would happen to your body? It would only be cold. You will know nothing about it. You will be cold like ice. Mullah Nasradin goes to the forest to fetch wood for the winter, (in) the snow. In the middle of the way as he gathers wood he sees that his hands have become cold (as) ice. He becomes cold. He said ‘Oh, but I am dying, because my wife said a body is cold (when dead). I am dying.’ Slowly he lay down on the snow. He lay down on the snow and from the other side wolves came. They came and tore his donkey to pieces, and began to eat it. Mullah Nasradin said ‘Go and be the substitutes of this soul of mine because I am not alive. If I were alive, I know what I would do to you.’