Name: Legend of the Glorious Adventures Of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere
Author: Charles De Coster
ISBN: 9781371528751

Legend of the Glorious Adventures Of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere

By Charles De Coster 26 Feb, 2019

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Excerpt.......At Damme, in Flanders, when the May hawthorn was coming into flower, Ulenspiegel was born, the son of Claes. When she had wrapped him in warm swaddling-clothes, Katheline, the midwife, made a careful examination of the infant’s head, and found a piece of skin hanging therefrom. “Born with a caul!” she cried out joyfully. “Born under a lucky star!” But a moment later, noticing a small black mole on the baby’s shoulder, she fell into lamentation. “Alas!” she wept, “it is the black finger-print of the devil!” “Monsieur Satan,” said Claes, “must have risen early this morning, if already he has found time to set his sign upon my son!” “Be sure, he never went to bed,” answered Katheline. “Here is Chanticleer only just awakening the hens!” And so saying she went out of the room, leaving the baby in the arms of Claes. Less

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