Note 410 — KING SHAH BAKHT AND HIS WAZIR AL-RAHWAN.[295] (continued 2)
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Arab. “Al-Muwaswis”: for “Wiswás” see vol. i. 106. This class of men in stories takes the place of our “cunning idiot,” and is often confounded with the Saudáwi, the melancholist proper.