Note 571 — THE MERCHANT’S DAUGHTER AND THE PRINCE OF AL-IRAK[498] (continued 2)
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Arab. “Su’ubán” = cockatrice, etc., vols. i. 172; vii. 322. Ibn Khaldun (vol. iii. 350) tells us that it was the title of a famous and fatal necklace of rubies.