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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 (of 10)

Note 221 — THE LOVES OF ABU ISA AND KURRAT AL-AYN.

Richard Francis Burton translation

In Arab. = a fawn beginning to walk; also the 28th lunar mansion or station, usually known as Batn al-Hut or Whale’s belly. These mansions or houses, the constellations through which the moon passes in her course along her orbit, are much used in Moslem astrology and meteorology.

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