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

Note 78 — HASAN OF BASSORAH.[5]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

“Forty days” is a quasi-religious period amongst Moslem for praying, fasting and religious exercises: here it represents our “honey-moon.” See vol. v. p. 62.

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