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

Note 137 — Appendix. VARIANTS AND ANALOGUES OF THE TALES IN THE SUPPLEMENTAL NIGHTS, VOL. III.

Richard Francis Burton translation

Cf. the magic horn that Duke Huon of Bordeaux received from Oberon King of the Fairies, which caused even the Soudan of Babylon to caper about in spite of himself; and similar musical instruments in a hundred different tales, such as the old English poem of “The Friar and the Boy,” the German tale (in Grimm) of “The Jew among Thorns,” the “Pied Piper of Hamelin,” &c.

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