Note 50 — HASAN OF BASSORAH.[5]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
The forbidden closet occurs also in Sayf Zú al-Yazan, who enters it and finds the bird-girls. Trébutien ii, 208 says, “Il est assez remarquable qu’il existe en Allemagne une tradition à peu près semblable, et qui a fourni le sujet d’un des contes de Musaeus, entitulé le voile enlevé.” Here Hasan is artfully left alone in a large palace without other companions but his thoughts and the reader is left to divine the train of ideas which drove him to open the door.