Mary Salome and Zebedee Mary Salome and Zebedee Mary Salome and Zebedee by Tilman Riemenschneider (c.1460–1531) originally formed the right wing of an altarpiece showing the family of the Virgin Mary. The central scene would have shown St Anne seated with her daughter Mary and the Christ Child. Mary Salome was another daughter of St Anne, half sister of the Virgin and wife of Zebedee. Riemenschnieder was one of the most important sculptors in southern Germany in the late fifteenth and sixteenth century. He specialised is carving limewood altarpieces, some of which were painted. Others, such as this example which was carved in Würzburg
The Husband of the Rat's Daughter The Husband of the Rat's Daughter The Husband of the Rat's Daughter is a Japanese fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in "The Brown Fairy Book". It is Aarne-Thompson type 2031C, a chain tale or cumulative tale. Another story of this type is "The Mouse Turned into a Maid". Two rats had a remarkably beautiful daughter. In some variants, the father would have been happy to marry her to a rat of finer family, but the mother did not want her daughter to marry a mere rat; in others, they both agreed that she must marry the greatest being in