The three apples
The three apples is a swan from a thousand and one nights . It appears in Claudia Otts translation as The Three Apples (Nights 69–72), in Gustav Weil as the story of the three apples .
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The caliph explores the city and meets a fisherman who wants to die of poverty. The caliph gives him a hundred dinars for his next catch. It's a box with a wrapped, chopped up girl's corpse. The caliph is raging. The vizier should find the murderer or hang himself. He asks for three days' notice, but has no advice. When the time comes, suddenly a young and an old man report, each claiming to have been alone.
The young man reports how he traveled half a month to get his sick wife apples, which she wanted first and then left. He saw a slave with one of the apples who wanted it from his lover. He stabbed his wife in anger. Then his son told him that he had taken it and that the slave had taken it away from him. Now he regrets. The old man is his uncle who came to it.
Now the caliph wants the slave. The vizier despairs, waits three days again. He is supposed to die, he says goodbye to the family, most recently to his youngest daughter. She has the apple, his own slave sold it to her. The caliph laughs. He pardons the slave and rewards the young man.
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The fisherman fishes in Baghdad in the Tigris . The caliph and his vizier are from the previous stories from The porter and the three ladies , but otherwise there is no longer any connection. The vizier tells the two viziers Nuraddin of Egypt and Badraddin of Basra . Another confusion about a dead person is The Hunchback, the friend of the Emperor of China , another criminal case. The story of the Jewish doctor: the young man from Mosul and the murdered lady .
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. 218-226, 295 (first CH Beck, Munich 2006).