King Solomon's Seal

KING SOLOMON’S SEAL consists of 63+ pieces some short some long each a story several containing stories within stories. There is a short introduction TO THE READER which informs us by whom it originated and is narrated if neither the why nor how. There is also an AFTERWORDS which in some ways puts Finis to these tale-tellings. The time of its narrations is about 1750-1820 the place a small “house of study� perched on a mountain in the eastern part of the Fatra Range in Carpathia part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during that century. The materials are diverse in nature suggestion and purpose although the reader may and should suppose them meant for us today even if the language by which the tales are told is a pasticcio of assumed translation into English from some other language one that relates perhaps to whatever may have been the Yiddish vernacular of those lost times in that faraway place. Some two or three of its fables have appeared in print.. . KING SOLOMON’S SEAL playful and mock-serious at once is meant to entertain. It is a “literary� work consisting of pseudo-fairy tales pseudo-folk materials legends and the like.