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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 2 (of 6)

Volume 12 — TALE OF THE DAMSEL TUHFAT AL-KULUB.—Vol. XII. p. 70.

Richard Francis Burton translation

An entertaining story, but very inconsistent in the character of Iblis, who is constantly termed, in good Muslim fashion, "the accursed," yet seems to be somewhat of a follower of the Prophet, and on the whole a good-natured sort of fellow. His mode of expressing his approval of the damsel's musical "talent" is, to say the least, original.

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