Goha (name of folk story character) has more than one story and is told to all the generations over and over again.Basically it is a regular Egyptian peasant in a galabeya (dress for men) and his purpose in life is to make many mistakes in life so people can set examples from him.
I didn't find many stories on line but here is one that I found.
Once Goha was sitting under a hazel-nut tree, and he began to wonder why God let a big tree give forth small nuts while he let the watermelon, so much bigger than a hazel-nut, have a small branch which cannot carry it. From so much thinking Goha fell asleep. Then he suddenly awoke by a hazel-nut which had fallen on his head. He said, “Praise be to God. My lord, I have understood your wisdom that this big tree doesn’t give forth watermelon. (Had it done so, that) would have been the end of me."
Many of his stories now are accompanied with sayings. Like for example the most famous one is "where is your ear from Goha". This saying means not literally where is your ear from but rather that one has to remember that there is an ear closer to your hand than the other. It is a metaphor for life that we don't take the long road when the short one will make us reach the same goal faster.
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