Editing Joseph of Arimathea (section)

===Other legends===
According to one of England's best-known legends, when Joseph and his followers arrived, weary, on Wearyall Hill outside Glastonbury, he set his walking staff on the ground and it miraculously took root and blossomed as the "[[Glastonbury Thorn]]". The [[mytheme]] of the staff that Joseph of Arimathea set in the ground at Glastonbury, which broke into leaf and flower as the [[Glastonbury Thorn]] is a common miracle in [[hagiography]]. Such a miracle is told of the Anglo-Saxon saint [[Æthelthryth|Etheldreda]]:{{blockquote|1=Continuing her flight to Ely, Etheldreda halted for some days at Alfham, near Wintringham, where she founded a church; and near this place occurred the "miracle of her staff". Wearied with her journey, she one day slept by the wayside, having fixed her staff in the ground at her head. On waking she found the dry staff had burst into leaf; it became an ash tree, the "greatest tree in all that country;" and the place of her rest, where a church was afterwards built, became known as "Etheldredestow".|sign=Richard John King, 1862, in: ''Handbook of the Cathedrals of England; Eastern division: Oxford, Peterborough, Norwich, Ely, Lincoln''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=History of the See of Ely • King's Handbook to the Cathedrals of England|url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Great_Britain/England/_Topics/churches/_Texts/KINCAT*/Ely/2.html|access-date=2023-01-27|website=penelope.uchicago.edu}}</ref>}}

Medieval interest in genealogy raised claims that Joseph was a relative of Jesus; specifically, [[Mary, mother of Jesus|Mary]]'s uncle, or according to some genealogies, Joseph's uncle. A genealogy for the family of Joseph of Arimathea and the history of his further adventures in the east provide material for the ''Estoire del Saint Graal'' and the ''Queste del Saint Graal'' of the Lancelot-Grail cycle and ''Perlesvaus''.<ref>C. Scott Littleton, Linda A. Malcor, ''From Scythia to Camelot: a radical reassessment of the legends of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table and the Holy Grail'' (1994) 2000:310.</ref>

Another legend, as recorded in ''[[Flores Historiarum]]'', is that Joseph is in fact the [[Wandering Jew]], a man cursed by Jesus to walk the Earth until the [[Second Coming]].<ref>{{cite book | title = Reliques of Ancient English Poetry | isbn = 1-4021-7380-6 | page = 246 | last = Percy | first = Thomas | publisher = Adamant Media Corporation | year = 2001 | orig-year = 1847 | volume = 2 }}</ref>