Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 3 (of 6) Part 2

Note 156 — Appendix. VARIANTS AND ANALOGUES OF THE TALES IN THE SUPPLEMENTAL NIGHTS, VOL. III. (continued 2)

Richard Francis Burton translation

The first part of the story of the Young King of the Black Isles, in The Nights, bears some analogy to this, but there the paramour is only “half-killed” and the vindictive queen transforms her husband from the waist downwards into marble.

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