The first brother, the hunchbacked tailor
The first brother, the hunchbacked tailor, is a swank from A Thousand and One Nights . It appears in Claudia Otts translation as The First Brother, the Hunchbacked Tailor (night 153–156), in Max Henning's and Gustav Weil's as the story of the barber's first brother .
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The hairdresser tells how his eldest brother, the hunchback tailor, is sewing in the shop when he falls in love with the face of a woman who is looking out the window across the street. She sends her servant and has a dress made, plus a pair of trousers, then her husband orders 20 shirts and trousers, more clothes, five coats. His wife always tells him not to take any money. So he is completely in debt, hungry and tired. He is supposed to marry the maid and spend the night in the mill, where the miller lets him grind flour as a mule. There is no wedding. Finally the woman calls him in, but her husband is already waiting. He is whipped and banished for stalking.
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It is told by the hairdresser from The Story of the Hairdresser , who probably wants to justify his actions in The Story of the Tailor: The Limping Young Man from Baghdad and the Hairdresser . The second brother follows : «Chatterbox», the one paralyzed on one side , the third brother: «Fakfak», the blind one , the fourth brother, the one-eyed butcher , the fifth brother, the one with the cut off ears , the sixth brother, the one with the cut lips .
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. 383-389 (first CH Beck, Munich 2006).
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