At 03:36 PM 11/1/98 MET-1MEST, you wrote:
>I have once read somewhere (and cannot now recall where) that there
>existed a kind of medieval Christian explanation of the strange
>Jewish unwillingness to eat pork: it was a story where Christ himself
>partook, and there was also something about small Jewish children put
>into sacks (what for?) and magically turned into pigs (?), that's
>why, they say, since that time Jews do not eat pigs in order not to
>become cannibals.
>
>Does anybody remember this story?
>
>Elena Lemeneva.
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You will find the full details in Oskar Daehrnhardt, ed., _Natursagen. Eine
Sammlung naturdeutender Sagen, Maerchen, Fabeln und Legenden_ 3 vols.
(Berlin, 1907-1910), 2:102-107, 279-81.
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