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[ In the H. V he takes the Lamp from his bosom, where he had ever kept it since his misadventure with the African Magician]
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[ Here the mythical Rukh is mixed up with the mysterious bird Símurgh, for which see vol. x. 117.]
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[ The H. V. adds, "hoping thereby that thou and she and all the household should fall into perdition.">[
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[ Rank mesmerism, which has been practiced in the East from ages immemorial. In Christendom Santa Guglielma worshipped at Brunate, "works many miracles, chiefly healing aches of head." In the H. V. Alaeddin feigns that he is ill and fares to the Princess with his head tied up.]
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[ Mr. Morier in "The Mirza" (vol. i. 87) says, "Had the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, with all their singular fertility of invention and never-ending variety, appeared as a new book in the present day, translated literally and not adapted to European taste in the manner attempted in M. Galland's translation, I doubt whether they would have been tolerated, certainly not read with the avidity they are, even in the dress with which he has clothed them, however imperfect that dress maybe." But in Morier's day the literal translation was so despised that an Eastern book was robbed of half its charms, both of style and idea.]