[171]. These lines occur in vol. i. [25]: so I quote Mr. Payne.
[172]. Arab. “Musáhikah;” the more usual term for a Tribade is “Sahíkah” from “Sahk” in the sense of rubbing: both also are applied to onanists and masturbators of the gender feminine.
[173]. i.e. by way of halter. This jar is like the cask in Auerbach’s Keller; and has already been used by witches; Night dlxxxvii. vol. vi. [158].
[174]. Here they are ten but afterwards they are reduced to seven: I see no reason for changing the text with Lane and Payne.
[175]. Wazir of Solomon. See vol. i. [42]; and vol. iii. [97].
[176]. Arab. Ism al-A’azam, the Ineffable Name, a superstition evidently derived from the Talmudic fancies of the Jews concerning their tribal god, Yah or Yahvah.
[177]. The tradition is that Mohammed asked Akáf al-Wadá’ah “Hast a wife?”; and when answered in the negative, “Then thou appertainest to the brotherhood of Satans! An thou wilt be one of the Christian monks then company therewithal; but an thou be of us, know that it is our custom to marry!”
[178]. The old woman, in the East as in the West, being the most vindictive of her kind. I have noted (Pilgrimage iii. 70) that a Badawi will sometimes though in shame take the blood-wit; but that if it be offered to an old woman she will dash it to the ground and clutch her knife and fiercely swear by Allah that she will not eat her son’s blood.
[179]. Neither dome nor fount etc. are mentioned before, the normal inadvertency.
[180]. In Eastern travel the rest comes before the eating and drinking.