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Sources

Teichmann, E. (1 January 1959). "Musäus et «Le Barbier de Goettingue»". Revue de Littérature Comparée (in French). 33. Paris: 411.
Martin, Laura (2004). "Märchen und Meta-Märchen: Zur Poetik der "Volksmärchen der Deutschen" von Johann Karl August Musäus by Malgorzata Kubisiak". Marvels & Tales. 18 (1). Wayne State University Press: 113–116. ISSN 1521-4281. JSTOR 41388691.
Batt, Max (October 1907). "The German Story in England About 1826". Modern Philology. 5. University of Chicago Press: 172, 173.
May have inspired Washington Irving
Grimms' German Legends #212 (with note linking it to this story; an 1828 translation of this story can be found here) and their notes to their KHM stories "Learning to Fear" and "Little Folks' Presents"
- Their German Legends note cites: Johannes Agricola's Sprichwort, p. 623 (1529, 1548, and 1592 editions are listed in Ward's "Bibliography of sources"); Johann Heinrich Zedler's "Der ungewissenhafte Apotheker", p. 132 (Ward says this is in Universallexikon, 1731–1754); Johannes Praetorius' Wünschelruthe, pp. 372–373 (Ward lists Gazophylaci gaudium, das ist ein Ausbund von Wündschel-Ruthen, 1667); Musäus' "Stumme Liebe"; Abraham a Sancta Clara's Judas der Erzschelm I, 4 (story located in Kempen and Dordrecht); Beneš Method Kulda's No. 89 Prag. Menevi., 6, 87 (unclear); "Kairo (Sitzungsber., 7, 829). Karl meinet eingangs Paris." (unclear).
- This and other stories of ATU type 1645 translated by D. L. Ashliman as The Man Who Became Rich through a Dream.
Mentioned by Walter Scott:
- "“The Spectre Barber” is another of these popular tales, which, in itself singular and fantastic, becomes lively and interesting from the character of a good-humoured, well-meaning, thick-sculled burgher of Bremen, whose wit becomes sharpened by adversity, till he learns gradually to improve circumstances as they occur, and at length recovers his lost prosperity by dint of courage, joined with some degree of acquired sagacity."
"The Spectre Barber: Shaving the Ghost in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries"
William Alexander Clouston's notes to "The Tale of Zayn Al-Asnam": Documents many other similar stories, and also Musäus' probable source for this version.
- The story of Zayn Al-Asnam is one of two stories in Antoine Galland's One Thousand and One Nights that the publisher Barbin included at the end of volume eight (1709), taken from François Pétis de la Croix' translation of the 15th-century Turkish collection Ferec baʿde şidde ('Relief After Hardship'). The story is described at List of One Thousand and One Nights characters#Zayn Al-Asnam.
- Clouston cites other variants from several articles in The Antiquary magazine, that describe several European variants of this story: "The Two Pedlar Legends of Lambeth and Swaffham", "A Further Note on the Legend of the Chapman of Swaffham", "The Pedlar of Swaffham", and "The Pedlar of Swaffham"
"Musäus, Johann Karl August" and "Traum vom Schatz auf der Brücke (AaTh/ATU 1645)" from the Enzyklopädie des Märchens.

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