Note 455 — TALE OF MOHSIN AND MUSA.[435]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
In most of these tales the well is filled in over the intruding “villain” of the piece. Ibn Khaldun (ii. 575) relates a “veritable history” of angels choking up a well; and in Mr. Doughty (ii. 190) a Pasha-governor of Jiddah does the same to a Jinni-possessed pit.