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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 (of 10)

Note 421 — ALI NUR AL-DIN AND MIRIAM THE GIRDLE-GIRL.[376]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

i.e. bewitching. See vol. i. 85. These incompatible metaphors are brought together by the Saj’a (prose rhyme) in—“iyah.”

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