The fifth brother, the one with the cut off ears

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The fifth brother, the one with the cut off ears, is a swan from A Thousand and One Nights . It is in Claudia Otts translation as The fifth brother, the one with the cut off ears (Night 162–166), in Max Henning and in Gustav Weil as the story of the barber's fifth brother .

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The hairdresser tells of his fifth brother, who buys glass for his inheritance in order to trade. He dreams of what he wants to do as a rich man that he breaks it. He cries and is given money. An old woman lures him to a woman, where he is knocked down and sprinkled with salt in the cellar. He survives, goes back and takes revenge with the sword. The woman shows him treasures, but still manages to get most of it away from him. The wali takes the rest. He is banished and still robbed.

classification

Wālī is a senior administrative officer. The hairdresser tells it from The Tailor's Story: The Limping Young Man from Baghdad and the Hairdresser and The Hairdresser's Story . The sixth brother follows , the one with the cut off 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. 403-414 (first CH Beck, Munich 2006).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 , p. 697 (first CH Beck, Munich 2006).

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