3 myths
Each story names the sources it was written from.
Before Balak hired Balaam he had his own oracle. A golden bird fitted with a rare tongue. Seven days of offerings, one prick, and it spoke.
A gentile seer who could gaze on the Shekhinah, the Divine Presence, shoves past his servants at dawn to saddle his own donkey, hungry to curse Israel.
Medieval Jews chase signs with children and black-handled knives, while sages at Usha open the law to foreign eyes without fear.
