“Presently they were surprised by some genii, who, surrounding them before they were fully awake, embraced them.
“In the morning the women returned to the village.
“When a few moons had risen and died (that is to say, when a few months had passed), the men of the village saw that the women were about to become mothers.
“The chief of the village therefore cried, ‘Seize them and put them to death!’
“But the cadi replied, ‘No, let us wait until the children are born.’
“So they waited until nine moons had risen and died, when each woman gave birth to a boy.
“Some men said, ‘Now let us kill the mothers and the children.’
“The cadi replied, ‘No, let us wait till they are older, none but God can create a soul.’
“So they waited.
“The boys grew, and as time went on fought with the other children of the village; and they made for themselves weapons of iron, swords and daggers, such as had hitherto been unknown in the country.