The Good Cloth

The Good Cloth - something in favor of the Brothers Grimm.

As Oliver Geister reports in his book,  the Grimm Brothers have deselected the Fairy Tale ‘Der gute Lappen’ (No. 387; The good cloth; there are two version but the ending is the same).

Christian Wilhelm Dietrich: Der Kurzwarenhändler, 1741 / Gemeinfrei, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=870043


Two sisters were in possession of a good, old cloth that made to gold whatever was wrapped in it. One day, when the clever daughter went to church, a Jewish haberdasher came to the sister’s house and praised his good new cloths that he offered to exchange for a bad old ones (certainly knowing about the value of this special magic old cloth of the sisters).  


Now, the younger stupid one of the two sisters agreed to such deal … [here the story breaks and it only contains the following sentence in parentheses]:              

(Afterwards the Jew becomes a dog, the girls become chickens, and the chickens finally become humans and beat the dog to death.)

[Nachher wird der Jude ein Hund, die Mädchen Hühner, die Hühner aber endlich Menschen, und prügeln den  Hund zu Tode.] 👨🐕👧👧👧🐔🐔🐔👩👩👩🐕💥

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What is the obvious message? 

Jews are greedy, they betray and tell on, they are tricksters and deserve punishment. And as everybody knows: Jews lie!

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