The second brother: "Chatterbox", the one paralyzed on one side
The second brother: "Chatterbox", the one-sided paralyzed man, is a story from the Arabian Nights . It is in Claudia Otts translation as The Second Brother: «Chatterbox», paralyzed on one side (night 156–158), in Max Henning's and Gustav Weil's as the story of the barber's second brother .
content
The hairdresser talks about his second brother. An old woman lures him to a lady in the palace. It will be his if he tolerates everything without contradiction. He's beaten, his beard shaved, his brows dyed, has to dance, she laughs at him. Finally he has to run after her naked and falls through the floor onto the market. He is whipped and expelled from the city.
classification
The hairdresser tells it from The Tailor's Story: The Limping Young Man from Baghdad and the Hairdresser and The Hairdresser's Story . The third brother follows : "Fakfak", the blind man , 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 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. 389-394 (first CH Beck, Munich 2006).