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But he did not know what to do. Fortunately there was staying with him for the Sabbath a travelling Saint from the far city of Ridnik, a Chasid, very skilful in plagues and purifications, and able to make clean a creeping thing by a hundred and fifty reasons. He directed the woman to wrap the fish in a shroud and give it honorable burial as quickly as possible.
Half Bagdad was running after him, crying, "Hail, Mizra! Lord of Bagdad!" All this the two storks beheld from the roof of the palace, and the Caliph Chasid exclaimed, "Perceivest thou now why I am enchanted, Grand-Vizier? This Mizra is the son of my deadly enemy, the mighty sorcerer Kaschnur, who, in an evil hour, vowed revenge against me. Still I do not abandon all hope.
The owl was silent a moment, and then said: "Take it not unkindly, but only on one condition can I grant your wish." "Speak out! speak out!" cried Chasid. "Command; whatever it may be, I am ready to obey." "It is this: I would fain at the same time be free; this, however, can only take place, if one of you offer me his hand."
A good pinch, and the magic word of the Caliph changed him into a stork. The Caliph then directed that he should be put into a cage and placed in his garden. Long and happily the Caliph Chasid lived with his wife, the Princess. His happiest hours were when the Grand Vizier visited him in the afternoon.
"Do not take it ill, but I can fulfil your wish only on one condition." "What is it? what is it?" cried Chasid; "whatever you please; I will agree to any thing." "Why, I should like to obtain my own liberty also; but this is possible only on condition that one of you shall marry me."
He had been at it all day, and he went on far into the small hours, shaking his body backwards and forwards without remission. Meckisch was a Chasid, which in the vernacular is a saint, but in the actual a member of the sect of the Chasidim whose centre is Galicia. In the eighteenth century Israel Baal Shem, "the Master of the Name," retired to the mountains to meditate on philosophical truths.
Drums and trumpets sounded, a man in a scarlet mantle, embroidered in gold, sat on a splendidly caparisoned horse surrounded by richly dressed slaves; half Bagdad crowded after him, and they all shouted, 'Hail, Mirza, the Lord of Bagdad! The two storks on the palace roof looked at each other, and Caliph Chasid said, 'Can you guess now, Grand Vizier, why I have been enchanted?
And if you go to Madrid, and walk through the streets till you come to the highest church, you will see Medio Pollito perched on his one leg on the steeple, with his one wing drooping at his side, and gazing sadly out of his one eye over the town. Spanish Tradition. Caliph Chasid, of Bagdad, was resting comfortably on his divan one fine afternoon.
Long and happily lived Caliph Chasid with his spouse, the Princess; his pleasantest hours were always those, when in the afternoon the Vizier sought him; and whenever the Caliph was in a very good humor, he would let himself down so far, as to show Mansor how he looked, when a stork.
"Ah, Sir," groaned the vizier, after they had been flying a couple of hours, "with your permission I cannot stand it any longer; you fly too fast! Besides, it is already growing dark, and we should do well to be looking out for some place to pass the night." Chasid yielded to the request of his officer, and perceiving a ruined building in the valley below, they flew down to it.
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