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The frog, which is none other than a child of the demon Lilith teaches Johanan the knowledge of all the languages and before leaving, calls all the birds and animals together. They bring jewels and herbs, the virtues of which Johanan is taught. Thus becoming rich, he becomes the favourite of the king. The king is urged by the Elders to marry. Suddenly a birds drops a long golden hair on his shoulder, and he vows not to marry anyone else but the girl to whom that hair belongs and unless the Jews bring her he threatens to kill them. Johanan is sent to find her; he takes three loaves of bread and on the way feeds a starving crow and a starving dog. He ransoms a large fish and casts him back into the sea. He then arrives at the palace where this princess lives, who consents to go with him on condition that he obtains flasks filled with the waters of Paradise and the Waters of Hell, and recovers a ring which she had dropped into the sea. The raven brings the two flasks and the fish, through the intermediary of Leviathan, brings the ring. On spitting it out on land, a boar swallows it. The dog appears, runs after the boar and tears it to pieces and thus Johanan recovers the ring. When both reach the king's palace, Johanan is waylaid and killed. The queen then pours the water of Paradise over him and brings him back to life. The King insists upon her doing the same to him, orders a servant to kill him. She pours the water of Hell on him and he is burned to ashes. The queen shows the people that he was burned to ashes because he was a wicked man whilst Johanan being pious was brought to life again. He is proclaimed king and marries her.
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