How the Wise Men Got to ChelmHow the Wise Men Got to Chelm is the first in depth study of Chelm literature and its relationship to its literary precursors. When God created the world, so it is said, he sent out an angel with a bag of foolish souls with instructions to distribute them equally all over the worldone fool per town. But the angels bag broke and all the souls spilled out onto the same spot. They built a settlement where they landed: the town is known as Chelm. The