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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 5 (of 6)

Note 417 — CŒLEBS THE DROLL AND HIS WIFE AND HER FOUR LOVERS.

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

Arab. “Hawwálín”; the passage is apparently corrupt. [“Hawálín” is clerical error for either “hawálà” = all around, or “Hawálí” = surroundings, surrounding parts, and “Audán” is pl. of the popular “Widn” or “Wudn” for the literary “Uzn,” ear.—St.]

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