Note 1083 — Chapter XLII · THE FISH OF MOSES—JONAH—SOLOMON’S RING

Cf. with these inciters to Sabbath-breaking, (A) The fish, “called the Jewish Sheikh, which with a long white beard and a body as large as a calf, but in shape like a frog and hairy as a cow, comes out of the sea every Saturday and remains on land until sundown on Sunday” (Robinson, op. cit., p. 35), and (B) the story of how on a Friday during St. Corbinian’s pilgrimage to Rome, when although meat and all else abounded—the Saint had always been a bit of a bon viveur!—there was an absolute dearth of fish, an eagle suddenly dropped from the clouds and let fall at the feet of the chef a fine fish. Baring-Gould, Lives of the Saints, vol. X. 123 (London, 1897).