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Yiddish-Folktales
@Yiddish-Folktales

The Sundial

It happened once that the people of Khelm made a sundial. But a rainstorm came along and drenched it. So the Khelmites built a roof over their sundial to keep it from getting wet.

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Glossary

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AnnotationsTELLER: Anon., from Galicia (southern Poland), (no date recorded)
COLLECTOR: Benyomin Volf Segel (pen name of B. V. Shiper).
SOURCE: Segel (1892), p. 29.

shel
@shel

man these Khelmites are so dumb haha people from Khelm just got dunked on. what angel went and spilled the jar of town fools all over Khelm am I right chavertes. fuckin' Khelm.


Anschel
@Anschel

Khelm is a real place and it's just, like, a normal small Polish city. Obviously not much of a Jewish population because, uh...

Anyway it makes me very happy that this whimsical village of fools is not remotely fictitious, it's just a collection of weird stories that got told about an actual real place


Yiddish-Folktales
@Yiddish-Folktales

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Not only is Khelm a real place, but the tradition of dunking on Khelm dates back to at least 1597:


garak
@garak

functions as an imaginary city of fools, similar to that of the Greek Abdera, the English Gotham, and the German Schilda, among numerous others.

Currently re-evaluating my opinion about Batman's relationships to crime and privilege.


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