Note 138 — Appendix. VARIANTS AND ANALOGUES OF THE TALES IN THE SUPPLEMENTAL NIGHTS, VOL. III.
Richard Francis Burton translation
Not distantly related to stories of this class are those in which the hero becomes possessed of some all-bestowing object—a purse, a box, a table-cloth, a sheep, a donkey, etc.—which being stolen from him he recovers by means of a magic club that on being commanded rattles on the pate and ribs of the thief and compels him to restore the treasure.