The merchant with the parrot

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The Merchant with the Parrot is a fairy tale from the Arabian Nights . It is in Claudia Otts translation as The Merchant with the Parrot (Night 14), in Max Henning as The Jealous and the Parrot , in Gustav Weil as the story of the husband and the parrot .

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The merchant goes away and lets a parrot at home watch out what his wife is doing. So he hears of their love affair and punishes them. When she learns that it was the bird who betrayed her, a servant must grind under the cage for one night, another spray water from above, and one turn a mirror. In the morning the bird tells of thunderstorms and rain. Then the man no longer believes him and kills him. Later neighbors tell him the truth.

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The tale is told by the king to the vizier in King Yunan and by the doctor Duban , in turn embedded in The Fisherman and the Djinni .

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  • Claudia Ott (Ed.): A thousand and one nights. How it all started Based on the oldest Arabic manuscript in the edition by Muhsin Mahdi, first translated into German and appended by Claudia Ott. Title of the original Arabic edition: The Thousand And One Nights (Alf Layla wa-Layla). dtv, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-423-14611-1 , pp. 63-65 (first CH Beck, Munich 2006).

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