adjoining room, but she begged to be allowed to retire
for a few moments, when she called upon Saint Zaynab
for help, who sent one of her sisters (?) a Jinniyah.
She clove the wall, and asked Dalal to promise to give
her her first child. She then gave her a piece
of wood to throw into the mouth of the Ghul when he
opened his mouth to eat her.[FN#442] He fell on the
ground senseless, and Dalal woke up the prince who
slew him. But when Dalal brought forth a daughter
whom she gave to the Jinniyah, her mother-in law declared
that Dalal herself was a Ghuleh, and she was banished
to the kitchen, where she peeled onions for ten years.
At the end of this time the Jinniyah again clove the
wall, and brought back the young princess, who was
introduced to her father, who took Dalal again into
favour. Meantime the sultan of the Jinn sent
for the Jinniyah, for his son was ill, and could only
be cured by a cup of water from the Sea of Emeralds,
and this could only be obtained by a daughter of mankind.
So the Jinniyah borrowed Dalal’s daughter again,
and took her to the sultan, who gave her a cup, and
mounted her on a Jinni, warning her not to wet her
fingers. But a wave touched the hand of the princess,
which turned as green as clover. Every morning
the Sea of Emerald is weighed by an officer to discover
whether any has been stolen; and as soon as he discovered
the deficiency, he took a platter of glass rings and
bracelets, and went from palace to palace calling
out, “Glass bracelets and rings, O young ladies.”
When he came to Dalal’s palace, the young princess
was looking out of the window, and insisted on going
herself to try them on. She hesitated to show
her right hand; and the spy knew that she was guilty,
so he seized her hand, and sunk into the ground with
her. He delivered her over to the servants of
the King of the Sea of Emerald, who would have beaten
her, but the Jinn surrounded her, and prevented them.
Then the King of the Sea of Emerald ordered her to
be taken, bound into the bath, saying that he would
follow in the form of a serpent, and devour her.
But she recognised him by his green eyes, when he
became a man, ordered her to be restored to her father,
and afterwards married her. He gave forty camel
loads of emeralds and jacinths as her dowry, and always
visited her by night in the form of a winged serpent,
entering and leaving by the window.
VI.—Histoire de la fille vertueuse.
A merchant and his wife set out to the Hejaz with their son, leaving their daughter to keep house, and commending her to the protection of the Kazi. The Kazi fell in love with the girl, but as she would not admit him, he employed an old woman to entice her to the bath, but the girl threw soap in his eyes, pushed him down and broke his head, and escaped to her own house, carrying off his clothes. When the Kazi was well enough to get about again he found that she had had the door of her house walled up until the return of her friends, so he wrote a slanderous