[546] See my “Curious Myths of the Middle Ages,” article on S. George. I have no doubt whatever that El Khoudr, identified by the Jews with Elias, is the original of the Wandering Jew. I did not know this when I wrote on the “Wandering Jew” in my “Curious Myths,” but I believe this to be the key to the whole story.
[547] Weil, pp. 176-81; Tabari, i. c. lxxvi.; Koran, Sura xviii.
[548] Voltaire has taken this legend as the basis of his story of “Zadig.”
[549] Targums, ii. pp. 380, 381.
[550] Weil, p. 175.
[551] Targums, ii. p. 382.
[552] Weil, p. 176.
[553] Targums, ii. p. 386.
[554] Tract. Kethuvoth, fol. 111, col. 2.
[555] Targums, ii. p. 391.