The daughter of R. Meir, after prayer and fasting, was told in a vision at night that her fate would be seven years of slavery, seven years in a brothel, seven year of service in the synagogue and Midrash. Greatly perturbed, her father having been the greatest Rabbi, and her husband the head of the college, she tried to escape by
hanging herself. Found by her husband, she was carried to the cemetery and put in a cave, it being the eve of Sabbath when she could not be buried. At midnight she awoke, revived and started weeping. In the morning a duke, riding along, heard her crying, took her with him and kept her as a slave for his wife. Seven years passed. The duke had been absent for a time and was now expected home. The wife asked her to string the pearls for her while she went to the bath. Whilst the girl was stringing the pearls, a bird came and snatched the string out of her hands and flew away. Her mistress would not believe her story and placed her in a house of ill-fame as punishment. Seven years passed. The king wanted to build a new palace and a large tree in the garden was cut down to be used as a beam. On the top of it was found a bird's nest with the string of pearls in it. The people remembered the loss, sent for the girl, begged her pardon, freed her from slavery and sent her home. She then came to a place where she worked in a synagogue and a Beth ha-Midrash. At one time a great scholar was announced to arrive, who refused to stay anywhere else but in the synagogue. Here the woman attended on him. One night she saw him weeping and crying until the morning. After being pressed for an answer, he told her of the disappearance of his wife, for they had not been able to find her in the cave, and that he had always been hoping to find her, and that he had refused to marry any other woman. She reminded him now of his lost wife. Then she made herself known to him, gave him all the details and signs, told him her story and they returned home and lived happily for many years.