Nasruddin jumped up and began to scream. He stuck out his tongue and shook his fists wildly. He then grabbed a knife.
At this, Nasruddin's wife started sobbing, and Nasruddin himself ran out of the room.
When he returned, his wife was still crying, and his son was hiding under a chair.
"Why did you run away?" she asked.
"I scared even myself," Nasruddin admitted. "Terror easily gets out of control. I meant to frighten our son, and instead I frightened us all."
Inspired by: Mulla's Donkey and Other Friends by Mehdi Nakosteen, p. 87. The story also appears in The Sufis by Idries Shah, free to read online at the Idries Shah Foundation.
Notes: This is usually told about some woman and her son, but I made it about Nasruddin's son.
I included this book in Tiny Tales of Nasruddin.
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