Reading Notes: Holy Land Folklore B

• The devil kept foiling God's plan to provide for humanity
• Moses and Aaron discuss their fear of death, and as a result, decide that it is time to die
• The next section outlines Soloman the King's history, and how Allah chastised his gluttony
• The tale of El Khudr the Evergreen tells the traditional story of the fountain of youth
• There were many people who found themselves at El Khudr healed, and the legend spread
• Elijah was well known in Jeruselum, as well as St. George who slain the monster
• A lot of stories form the Quran are very similar to those in the Old Testament, with different names

St. George, 14th Century Painting

Bibliography: Folk-lore of the Holy Land: Moslem, Christian and Jewish by J. E. Hanauer (1907).