The story of the first mendicant monk
The story of the first mendicant monk is a fairy tale from the Arabian Nights . It is in Claudia Otts translation as The story of the first mendicant monk (Nights 37-39), in Gustav Weil as the story of the first calendar .
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A prince visits his cousin and friend, also the prince's son, who makes him swear while drinking that he will lead a veiled woman to a certain house grave in the cemetery and wait for him there without asking. There the cousin digs up a staircase, disappears with her and lets him fix everything upstairs. He does it and goes to sleep. He tries in vain to find the grave for days. He's going home. There the vizier, whom he accidentally shot out as a boy, killed his father. Now the vizier stabs him in the eye, the executioner is supposed to kill him in the desert, but spare him. With his uncle he finds the grave with the underground hall where the cousin lies in bed with the woman, both burned to coal. The uncle explains that the siblings loved each other, for which God now punished them. The enemy vizier conquers the city, the uncle dies. The prince flees disguised as a mendicant monk.
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The narrator is the first mendicant monk from The Porter and the Three Ladies . The story of the second mendicant follows .
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- 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. 127-134 (first CH Beck, Munich 2006).
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