![]() ![]() He walked proudly at the head of the little procession, bearing the Star of Bethlehem, which Krabat had nailed to a stick. They wore straw crowns on top of their caps, and one of them, little Lobosch from Maukendorf, who was playing the part of the King of the Moors, blackened his face with soot every morning. Although His Most Serene Highness, the Elector of Saxony, had passed a law forbidding vagabonds to beg in His Most Serene Highness’s lands (but luckily the justices and those in authority would often turn a blind eye), the boys were going from village to village in the country around Hoyerswerda, dressed as the Three Kings from the East. ![]() ![]() It was between New Year’s Day and Twelfth Night, and Krabat, who was fourteen at the time, had joined forces with two other Wendish beggar boys. CHAPTER FIVE: The Man with the Plumed HatĬHAPTER SEVEN: The Sign of the Secret Brotherhood ![]()
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