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Sent: Wed 2002-06-19 14:49
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Subject: [M-R] Tear-soaked shift
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear Fellow List-Members
Sophie Oosterwijk (having, she fears, suspended herself from the List while in exceptional preoccupation with deadlines, etc.) asks me to pose the following query. She writes:
I have long known the story of the dead child who appeared to its mourning mother dressed in a shift soaking wet with her tears. I came across it in a German fairy-tale book, which I have mislaid somewhere. However, I have a very strong feeling that there is a medieval exemplum behind this story, a warning against excessive mourning on the part of parents. I have found a variant of the story in Thomas de Cantimpre, where a dead son is forced to carry a water pot full of his mother's tears. I have asked Malcolm Jones about this story, but he could not help me with its medieval origins.
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