Loaves of Bread
A merchant with a taste for fine foods sends a servant to buy bread, and is so delighted with the loaf that he brings back that he requests the same bread every day. Every day the servant buys a loaf from the same vendor woman, until one day she no longer is selling the bread. The merchant asks for the woman to be brought before him to explain her recipe. She arrives, and explains that her master was sick with a malignant ulcer, and that the doctor mixed flour with honeyed wine, spices, and sugar, and to use it as a plaster on the wound overnight. In the morning, she would take the plaster, bake it into bread and sell it. However, her master was now cured, so there was no more bread to be made. The merchant, hearing this, is nauseated and ill.
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Nishimura notes relevant motifs (TMI N383.2: Man falls dead when he realized that he has eaten bread from flour used for abscess plaster) and analogues: Dai Chido-ron, 23 (Taishozo 25, 231c); Schwarzbaum, Jewish and World Folklore, 351 ‘Everything that is exuberant and inordinate is bad…’; Afanasjew’s ‘The Clever Housewife’ (Russian Ridiculous Tales, 22).
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| Fourth Master |
Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. lat. qu. 618, Hebrew Group A, Hebrew Group B, Hebrew Prints, Latin Mishle Sendebar, Mishle Sendebar
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Berlin Staatsbibliothek Sprenger 1368, Libro de los Engaños, Madrid Real Academia Española 'El Conde Lucanor', Ms. 15, Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France Arabe 3639, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Arabe 3670
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