> In news:carvng$lb1$1@news.dialog.net.pl, rahn wrote:
>> Będę wdzięczny za wszelkie wskazówki.

The first category would contain stories that reveal its links with a few
specific works in medieval Arabic literature. For example, 'The Story of
the Steward' told within the longer story of 'The Hunchback' is roughly
the same story recounted as fact by the tenth century author at-Tanukhî
(d. 994) in his book Happiness after Hardship (Al-Faraj ba'd ash-shiddah).
It is the story of a husband who offends the delicate sensibility of his
wife on their wedding night by forgetting to wash his hands after having
eaten a certain spicy stew called zîrbâjah.[8] Years later the same dish
is served at a banquet and the other diners demand that he eat some of it;
the unfortunate man washes his hands one hundred and twenty times, then
tells the story of his disastrous wedding night.
http://www.arabiannights.org/medieval.html

Among other dishes set upon the table, there was one seasoned with garlic,
which was very delicious, and generally relished. We observed, however,
that one of the guests did not touch it, though it stood just before him.
We invited him to taste it, but he intreated us not to press him. "I will
take good care," said he, "how I touch any dish that is seasoned with
garlic; I have not yet forgotten what the tasting of such a dish once cost
me." We requested him to inform us what the reason was of his aversion to
garlic. But before he had time to answer, the master of the house
exclaimed, "Is it thus you honour my table? This dish is excellent, do not
expect to be excused from eating of it; you must do me that favour as well
as the rest." "Sir," said the gentleman, who was a Bagdad merchant, "I
hope you do not think my refusal proceeds from any mistaken delicacy; if
you insist on my compliance I will submit, but it must be on this
condition, that after having eaten, I may, with your permission, wash my
hands with alkali forty times, forty times more with ashes, and forty
times again with soap. I hope you will not feel displeased at this
stipulation, as I have made an oath never to taste garlic but on these
terms."
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