The sixth brother, the one with the cut off lips
The sixth brother, the one with the cut off lips, is a swan from A Thousand and One Nights . It is in Claudia Otts translation as The sixth brother, the one with the cut lips (night 166-168), in Max Henning and in Gustav Weil as the story of the barber's sixth brother .
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The hairdresser tells how his sixth, impoverished brother begs from a gentleman who only pretends to feed him with nothing at the table. But he plays along so nicely that he becomes its steward. After 20 years the Lord dies and the brother is poor again. Bedouins catch him, demand money and cut off his lip. Because he is talking to the Bedouin woman, he is castrated and thrown down a slope. He is found and taken care of by the narrator.
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The gentleman mentioned was one of the " Barmakid sons ". The hairdresser tells it from The Tailor's Story: The Limping Young Man from Baghdad and the Hairdresser and The Hairdresser's Story . According to his previous stories, this one has probably reached the height of the unbelievable. As a punchline, the hairdresser saves everyone's lives in the frame story The Bucklige, the friend of the Emperor of China .
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. 414-419 (first CH Beck, Munich 2006).