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

Note 215
The Second Kalandar’s Tale.

Lit. "Strike his neck."

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…man in my born days, and it is not lawful in Allah's sight to tell lies on him." "If thou know him not," said the Ifrit to her, “take this sword and strike off his head.”[FN#215] She hent the sword in hand and came close up to me; and I signalled to her with my eyebrows, my tears the while flowing adown my cheeks. She understood me and made answer, also by signs, "How couldest thou bring all this evil upon me?" and I rejoined …

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