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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1

Note 133 — THE FISHERMAN AND THE JINNI.

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

The gleam (zodiacal light) preceding the true dawn; the Persians call the former Subh-i-kázib (false or lying dawn) opposed to Subh-i-sádik (true dawn) and suppose that it is caused by the sun shining through a hole in the world-encircling Mount Kaf.

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