This is the freebie for today's fishbowl, inspired by a prompt from
thnidu.
"Pyg(gy-bank)malion"Once there was a rabbi
who wished to keep his money
as safe as it could be.
He had heard the tale of
Pygmalion (and got it all wrong)
so he crafted a golem of pygg and
made a slit in the cheap orange clay
that he could put the coins through.
Pyg(gy-bank)malion jingled
when he walked, but no matter
how hard the thieves and bandits tried,
they never could get it out of him,
for he was still a golem and
therefore very strong.
When at last the golem
became so full that the coins
no longer chimed inside him,
the rabbi went to smash him and
thereby retrieve his cache.
But Pyg(gy-bank)malion
pushed him down and ran away
(no longer jingling) into the night,
whereupon the rabbi sadly realized that
he had indeed made his money
completely safe --
even from himself.
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Notes:This is not part of the Clay of Life series proper, but it was a solitary prompt and a funny idea, so I wrote it anyway.
Pygmalion is a mythological figure who carved a statue and then fell in love with it. The statue's name is Galatea, but because the sculptor's name is more famous, people often confuse the two.
A
piggy bank is a hollow receptacle for money, traditionally made out of ceramic and shaped like a swine. It probably got its name from a cheap clay called pygg.
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