Dear All
A further find in Catalunya was a retable of the apostle Bartholomew which
contained a scene showing a blue baby in a cot with its royal parents looking on
and exhausted wet-nurses collapsed on the floor.
A caption in Catalan informs the viewer that 'This devil took the place of
Bartholomew for twenty-four years'. I guess this is an attempt to explain the
(?intentional) similarity between the name of the convert king Polymius in the
Bartholomew mission to India legend and that of Bartholomew's father,
Tolmai/Ptolemy.
However, I'm not aware of this changeling motif in any version of the
Bartholomew legend. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks!
Graham Jones
Leicester
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