Note 278 — THE TALE OF THE KAZI AND THE BHANG-EATER.[224]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
This is the Moslem version of “Solomon’s Judgment” (1 Kings iii. 16–20). The Hebrew legend is more detailed but I prefer its rival for sundry reasons. Here the women are not “harlots” but the co-wives of one man and therefore hostile; moreover poetical justice is done to the constructive murderess.