Answer:
1. the story of the Wandering Jew first appeared in print in early 17th-century Amsterdam. It tells of a man who cursed Christ on the way to the crucifixion and was in turn cursed to wander till Christ's second coming. People who challenge or offend the gods, or God, are a familiar theme in European literature.
2. the Wandering Jew's fate warns people not to swear, and the story includes a prophecy that the world would come to an end by 1969, a reiteration of a legend that Cain was the original father of black people, and that Jerusalem should eventually be a home to Jewish people from all over the world.