Episodes: Series - Kan Ya Ma Kan 1 - 1992


  • season 1
  • episode #1

Pure Water

Shaher's grandmother tells the tale of the old woodcutter who lives with his wife and suffers due to his greedy neighbor. The woodcutter finds a spring of water that makes him young, but when he shows it to his neighbor, he drinks from it until he becomes a baby, so they decide to raise him again.

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The Price of Treachery

The grandma tells the tale of the ruler who sends Hossam and Hassan to look for the water of life to save him. Hassan is captured by the goblins, so Hossam gets the water with the sleeping princess's aid and saves his brother. Hassan steals the water from his brother to give to his father, but the princess exposes him.

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  • episode #3

The Great Wall

The grandma tells the tale of the ruler who built the Great Wall, and his son who sounds the alarm to have fun with his fiancée, which makes the troops rush where the enemy isn't present, and his kingdom gets destroyed by the enemies after the troops don't respond to the warning, thinking that it is a false alarm.

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Morning Dew

The grandma tells the tale of a merchant who isolates his son in a palace and fulfills all his requests, so the angry cosmos turns the son into stone during the day, then at night, he'd return to his nature, until the grandson finds the solution, so he turns human again.

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  • episode #5

Daydreams

The grandma tells the story of a lazy woodcutter who dreams of getting rich without work. The woodcutter receives expensive honey, and he keeps dreaming of becoming rich after selling the honey until the vial gets broken and his dreams are in vain.

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  • episode #6

The Amazing Pot

The grandma tells the story of the poor fisherman who finds a pot that has a jinn that fulfills his requests, but on the condition that he praises God for a whole year. Then the year passes and the jinn fulfills all his requests for him, so the jinn is freed from the pot.

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  • episode #7

The Sneaky Whisperer

The grandma tells the story of three friends who find a treasure, so they pledge to be loyal, but soon they fall prey to their greed, so they kill each other because of the treasure.

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  • episode #8

The Merry Nightingale

The grandma tells the tale of a merchant who lives with Rahaf, who loves music. Rahaf finds a little nightingale, which is actually a human who was turned into this form by a fairy, and the nightingale returns as a man after Rahaf falls in love with him, which convinces the merchant that music is food for the soul.

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  • episode #9

The Chicken and the Rug

The grandma tells the story of a man who leaves a magical rug and a chicken that lays golden eggs for his two sons, but the devil succeeds in turning them against each other, so a stranger steals the chicken and the rug from them.

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  • episode #10

Grandfather and Grandson

The grandma tells the tale of a man who is living with his son, daughter-in-law and grandson. The grandfather is mistreated by his daughter-in-law, who asks her husband to get rid of his father, but soon the grandson succeeds in convincing his father to stop what he was going to do to his grandfather.

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  • episode #11

The Mermaid

The grandma tells the story of the fisherman who frees a mermaid from the nets, so she carries out his never-ending requests until she gives him a stone in the shape of a blue eye as the last request, but he finds out that it's worthless, so people keep linking the blue eye with repelling envy.

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  • episode #12

The Brave Prince

The grandma tells the tale of the prince who finds a man called Hassan who was turned into a bird by a witch for refusing to marry her daughter, and she gave his fiancée to the devil, so the prince succeeds in driving a wedge between the witch and the devil, and Hassan returns to his fiancée and the curse is lifted.

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  • episode #13

Land and Treasure

The grandma tells the story of a widow who inherits land that was neglected by her children, who decide to sell their share after the land became fallow. Their mother claims that there is treasure buried, so the children dig in vain until they plant the land again, and their lives turn for the better.

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  • episode #14

The Golden Bird

The grandma tells the story of the governor, who is gifted a golden bird by one of his subjects. He asks the servant to convince Princess Jasmine to marry him, but the princess discovers that the governor killed her father, so she kills him before he executes the servant.

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  • episode #15

The Amazing Turtle

The grandma tells the story of Mowaffaq, who is forced to marry a turtle by his father's orders. He finds out that his wife is an enchanted girl in the image of a turtle. He is unable to wait a few weeks for her to return to normal, so he tries to break her curse, but she turns into a bird for another thousand days.

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  • episode #16

The Amazing Tree

The grandma tells the story of the poor woodcutter, who finds a magic tree that gives him a wand and an enchanted plate. He then tells his neighbor about them, and she steals them, so the tree shows him the wand of truth that tells him who stole them, so he learns not to reveal secrets.

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  • episode #17

The Richness of the Soul

The grandma tells the tale of a mother who lives with her twin daughters, one of whom has a good soul, while the other is rebellious and selfish. The rebellious one finds herself locked in a palace full of jewels till she realizes that wealth is the richness of the soul, so she leaves the palace and goes to her mother.

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  • episode #18

The Amazing Snake

The grandma tells the story of a skilled flute player who is surprised by the love of a snake for his playing, so it keeps rewarding him with precious stones. The player reveals to his son the secret of his wealth, so the son tries to deceive the snake, which kills him and leaves its owner after killing his son.

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  • episode #19

The Shepherd and the Giant

The grandma tells the story of the shepherd whose goat runs away to the giant's grove, so he tries to return it by flattering the giant, who turns him into a dwarf. The shepherd soon finds a spring of water that turns him into a giant, so he takes revenge on the owner of the grove and regains the goat.

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  • episode #20

Loving Work

The grandma tells the story of a lazy carpet maker who meets the giant, who offers to give him money every day in exchange for not working all his life. Soon the carpet maker gets bored, so the giant allows him to work again.

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  • episode #21

Blind Imitation

The grandma tells the story of the old woodcutter, who is bullied by his neighbors over his soft gland until he meets a jinn who replaced his gland with gold, so his neighbor imitates him so that he would become rich, but the jinn makes him a hunchback as punishment for his act.

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  • episode #22

We Are All God's Children

The grandma tells the tale of the king who hears of a sailor who's jealous of the advisor's lack of work, so the king asks the sailor and the advisor five questions, and the advisor answers, while the sailor has to go five times to check, so the sailor realizes that every creature was created for a reason.

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  • episode #23

The Sheikh of the Path

The grandma tells the story of a young man from a poor village who tries to discover an abandoned path, hoping to find something to help the people of his village. He suffers a lot until he reaches the end of his path, and God rewards him with a treasure and a flying carpet that he brings back to his village.

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  • episode #24

Beginning and End

The grandma tells the story of Aladdin, who is affected by the death of his father, so he roams the earth in search of the Land of Immortality to make his grandmother immortal, until he reaches the Land of Truth, so he realizes that good deeds are what keep him immortal and returns to find his grandmother has passed.

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  • episode #25

First, a Good Start

The grandma tells the story of the governor who announces that whoever reaches the flower that returns polluted water to be drinkable will be rewarded with marrying his daughter, so a poor young man succeeds in reaching it after he sincerely intends to get the flower to save his village.

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  • episode #26

Neighborhood Price

The grandma tells the story of the chief of merchants, who loses his money and is forced to sell his property. His neighbors pay off his debts when they learn of his refusal to sell his house in order to keep them as his neighbors, as the neighbor comes before the house.

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  • episode #27

Parental Blessing

The grandma tells the story of a poor young man who dreams of the prize he will get when he returns the governor's daughter to him. The poor young man succeeds in fighting the jinn and returning the governor's daughter thanks to his mother's prayers.

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  • episode #28

The Old Crook

The grandma tells the story of a boy who lives with his father, a shepherd. An old man takes advantage of him to bring him jewelry from the cave, so the old man leaves him there to die. After the boy is saved by a giant bird, he seeks the help of his father, who throws the old man into the cave, and he dies.

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  • episode #29

The Butterfly and the Moon Flower

The grandma tells the tale of a young man who goes to look for the Moon Flower, a cure for his stepfather, despite his bad treatment of him. He finds the flower guarded by a snake, which stipulates that whoever uses the medicine must be good, so the snake kills his stepfather after he returns to his evil ways.

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