The envious and the envied
The envious and the envied is a fairy tale from the Arabian Nights . It is in Claudia Otts translation as The Envious and the Envious (Nights 46-48).
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When he learns that his neighbor envies him, the envied man founds a famous monastery in another city. The envious visits him and pushes him into the well. There the envied Djinn hears that the Sultan will bring him his possessed daughter and that he can cure her by burning seven of his cat's hairs. She becomes well, he receives her as a wife, later becomes a vizier and then sultan. When the envious meets him once with his court, he gives him rich presents.
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Djinns are ghosts. The marid (demon) Maimun Ibn Damdam has occupied the princess. The prince tells the fairy tale to Ifrit in The Story of the Second Mendicant Monk so that he can spare him.
There are similar healings in Grimm's The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs or The Two Wanderers .
literature
- 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. 148–152 (first CH Beck, Munich 2006).