Myths & Legends (Page 3)

The very best of the beasts was a Mahari, a racing camel

Coyote sometimes appeared as an animal and sometimes as a human and this made him very tricksy indeed

Prince Locket tried very hard not to look at her tangled hair and her broken teeth, and worst of all, the huge wart at the end of her nose

Challah in the Ark

Angel

But for the rest of their lives, Eliana baked challah for Samuel and Samuel gave thanks to her and to god

Children would come to her and sit at her feet as they listened, Spellbound, to the tales she told

Heaven and Hell

They gazed hungrily at the food, but no one touched a thing

Soliday quickly strung another arrow and it flew high up into the leaves

Before her was a magnificent palace, with ornate ceilings and fine gilded furniture

When they heard about the reward, people came from far and wide to try and mend the crack in the diamond

So Ariella looked at the table again and at last she saw why the people looked so thin and miserable

Up and up he climbed, the old woman still shouting imprecations from the ground

They were feeding each other &ndash; and they were having fun

This new baby would grow up to be kind-hearted and generous, just like Ariella

But as the king reached out to take the gift from Rachel, she opened her hands and a dove slipped out from between them and flew into the branches of a nearby tree

When the king awoke the next morning, he looked up and saw the trees of the forest above him and his wife sitting next to him

With that, Elijah vanished back up to heaven

Soon the travellers arrived at the home of an old woman who lived in a tiny one-room hut

Instead of letting him die, god sent a chariot of fire to take him up to heaven, where he lives to this day

But no one was paying attention to Natan sitting quietly at the back, cutting out letters all day long

And now that Rabbi Joshua had started to question and complain, he found he could not stop

As he stared at the diamond, he suddenly saw that the crack had turned into the most beautiful rose he had ever seen, blooming from inside of the stone

It is the perfect stem of a perfect rose

The diamond was perfect in every way. Each morning, the king would take it out of its velvet box and hold it up to the light to watch it sparkle

Bird with a Worm

Scissors

The Characters of Jewish Tales I

The Characters of Jewish Tales Ii