[FN#177] Koran iv. 78.  A mis-quotation, the words are, “Fight therefore against the friends of Satan, for the craft of Satan shall be weak.”

[FN#178] i.e.  Koranic versets.

[FN#179] In the Book of Sindibad this is the “Story of the Prince who went out to hunt and the stratagem which the Wazir practised on him.”

[FN#180] I have noted that it is a dire affront to an Arab if his first cousin marry any save himself without his formal leave.

[FN#181] i.e. the flowery, the splendid; an epithet of Fatimah, the daughter of the Apostle “the bright blooming.”  Fatimah is an old Arab name of good omen, “the weaner:”  in Egypt it becomes Fattumah (an incrementative= “great weaner"); and so Aminah, Khadijah and Nafisah on the banks of the Nile are barbarised to Ammunah, Khaddugah and Naffusah.

[FN#182] i.e. his coming misfortune, the phrase being euphemistic.

[FN#183] Arab.  “Ray:”  in theology it means “private judgment” and “Rayi” (act. partic.) is a Rationalist.  The Hanafi School is called “Ashab al-Ray” because it allows more liberty of thought than the other three orthodox.

[FN#184] The angels in Al-Islam ride piebalds.

[FN#185] In the Bresl.  Edit.  “Zajir” (xii. 286).

[FN#186] This is the “King’s Son and the Merchant’s Wife” of the Hitopadesa (chapt. i.) transferred to all the Prakrit versions of India.  It is the Story of the Bath-keeper who conducted his Wife to the Son of the King of Kanuj in the Book of Sindibad.

[FN#187] The pious Caliph Al-Muktadi bi Amri ’llah (A.H. 467=A.D. 1075) was obliged to forbid men entering the baths of Baghdad without drawers.

[FN#188] This peculiarity is not uncommon amongst the so-called Aryan and Semitic races, while to the African it is all but unknown.  Women highly prize a conformation which (as the prostitute described it) is always “either in his belly or in mine.”

[FN#189] Easterns, I have said, are perfectly aware of the fact that women corrupt women much more than men do.  The tale is the “Story of the Libertine Husband” in the Book of Sindibad; blended with the “Story of the Go-between and the Bitch” in the Book of Sindibad.  It is related in the “Disciplina Clericalis” of Alphonsus (A.D. 1106); the fabliau of La vieille qui seduisit la jeune fille; the Gesta Romanorum (thirteenth century) and the “Cunning Siddhikari” in the Katha-Sarit-Sagara.

[FN#190] The Kashmir people, men and women, have a very bad name in Eastern tales, the former for treachery and the latter for unchastity.  A Persian distich says: 

  If folk be scarce as food in dearth ne’er let three lots come
near ye: 
  First Sindi, second Jat, and third a rascally Kashmeeree.

The women have fair skins and handsome features but, like all living in that zone, Persians, Sindis, Afghans, etc., their bosoms fall after the first child and become like udders.  This is not the case with Hindu women, Rajputs, Marathis, etc.