Note 157 — The Ninth Book.

The Mohammedan tradition is even more horrible than this: The corpse of the wicked is gnawed and stung till the resurrection of ninety-nine Dragons, with seven heads each, or as others say, their sins will become venomous Beasts, the grievous ones stinging like Dragons, the smaller like Scorpions, and the others like Serpents; circumstances which some understand in a figurative sense.

Sale’s preliminary discourse.

This Mohammedan tale may be traced to the Scripture; “whose worm dieth not.”