Note 440 — TALE OF NÚR AL-DÍN ALÍ & HIS SON BADR AL-DÍN HASAN

This is not physiologically true: a bride rarely conceives the first night, and certainly would not know that she had conceived. Moreover the number of courses furnished by the bridegroom would be against conception. It is popularly said that a young couple often undoes in the morning what it has done during the night.