The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 · Richard Francis Burton translation

Note 420
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.

Arab. "Ya Mash'úm" addressed to an evil spirit.

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… it grew still more and more till it became a dog and barked out "Owh! Owh!" When the bridegroom saw this he was frightened and exclaimed "Out with thee, O unlucky one!" [FN#420] But the dog grew and swelled till it became an ass-colt that brayed and snorted in his face "Hauk! Hauk!" [FN#421] Whereupon the Hunchback quaked and cried, "Come to my aid, O people of the house!" But behold, the ass-colt grew and became big as a buf…

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