The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country

Note 60 — CANTO XI

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This is a well-known Mongol characteristic; and it is rather oddly attributed by Arabic writers to the Jinn. "Two of them appeared in the form and aspect of the Jarm, each with one eye slit endlong, and jutting horns and projecting tusks."—Story of Tohfat-el-Kulub ( Thousand and One Nights, Breslau edition).

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