The Jar: A story about Hōja

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This is my version of a, as far as I know, really common story among many Balkan countries and cultures close to East Europe. Neither do I know the origins of this story nor how old  it is and I cannot remember its title. Maybe that was the reason for which I wrote this version one month ago, in order to refresh in my long-term memory one of my favourite folktales.
    
    The story concerns Hoja, a very intelligent middle-aged man who enjoys to make clever pranks to other people exposing their pompous and shallow character. He is the protagonist of many humorus and somehow educational folkstories. However, I do not know whether he is based on the "adventures"of an actual person or whether he is the fictional combination of many different people that was transfered from place to place as a representation of the winning cleverness and morality over far-less social and unethical attribute
    
    To conclude, I was inspired in some parts of the narration by an anecdote for a disagreement between the consul Cornēlius Scipio Nasīca and the poet Quintus Ennius.
    http://ebooks.edu.gr/modules/ebook/show.php/DSGL-C133/616/3991,17845/ 
    (unfortunately the text is only in Latin and Greek).All Rights Reserved

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The Jar: A story about Hōja
Sat, Jan 6, 2018

This is my version of a, as far as I know, really common story among many Balkan countries and cultures close to East Europe. Neither do I know the origins of this story nor how old  it is and I cannot remember its title. Maybe that was the reason for which I wrote this version one month ago, in order to refresh in my long-term memory one of my favourite folktales.
    
    The story concerns Hoja, a very intelligent middle-aged man who enjoys to make clever pranks to other people exposing their pompous and shallow character. He is the protagonist of many humorus and somehow educational folkstories. However, I do not know whether he is based on the "adventures"of an actual person or whether he is the fictional combination of many different people that was transfered from place to place as a representation of the winning cleverness and morality over far-less social and unethical attribute
    
    To conclude, I was inspired in some parts of the narration by an anecdote for a disagreement between the consul Cornēlius Scipio Nasīca and the poet Quintus Ennius.
    http://ebooks.edu.gr/modules/ebook/show.php/DSGL-C133/616/3991,17845/ 
    (unfortunately the text is only in Latin and Greek).

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