The fourth brother, the one-eyed butcher
The fourth brother, the one-eyed butcher, is a fairy tale from Arabian Nights . It is in Claudia Otts translation as The fourth brother, the one-eyed butcher (night 160-161), in Max Henning and in Gustav Weil as the story of the barber's fourth brother .
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The hairdresser tells about his fourth brother, a rich butcher. An old man is cheating on him with silver coins that turn into paper. When he grabs it, he transforms the ram that has just been hung up into a man, as if he were offering human flesh. The people beat him, the old man cuts his eye out and the police captain confiscates everything. He becomes a cobbler. Once the king comes by and has him hit because he's one-eyed. Then you hold him with a robber, and since he already has traces of blows, you don't believe him, punish him again and ban him.
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In addition to the scars from the previous punishment, his one-eyedness marks the butcher as guilty. The hairdresser tells the story of the fairy tale from The Tailor's Story: The Limping Young Man from Baghdad and the Hairdresser and The Hairdresser's Story . It follows the fifth brother, the one with the cut off ears , the sixth brother, 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. 398-402 (first CH Beck, Munich 2006).
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