Leg over Leg: Volumes One and Two

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He has said — and if he lied the responsibility is his — that one night he saw in his dreams that he drank an iced drink and then, immediately after it, a hot drink and started complaining of a severe pain in his molars and of a hoarseness in his throat. On other occasions, he would dream he was plunging from a mountain top or falling off a camel’s back, so that he ended up bent double. If he dreamed that he ate pickles, he would get a stomachache from them that same night, if he drank salty or brackish water, he would vomit, and if he smelled a bad smell, he would faint. And if anyone were to tell him that he’d seen a fair, full-bodied girl in his garden, that night in his dreams he would see himself

in Wayl,

“A valley in Hell, or a well or a gateway there”

or in al-Mawbiq,

“A valley” there

or in al-Falaq,

“Hell, or a pit therein”

or in Būlas,

“A prison” there

or in Sijjīn,

“A valley” there

or in Athām,

“A valley” there

or in al-Ḥuṭama,

“A gateway” there

or in Ghayy,

“A valley” there, or “a river”

or in al-Ṣaʿūd,

“A mountain” there with, ranged about it,

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Lubaynā

“Name of the daughter of Iblīs”

or Zalanbūr,

“One of the five sons of Iblīs”

or Miswaṭ,

“A son of Iblīs who tempts men to anger”

or al-Surḥūb,

“A blind devil that lives in the sea”

or Khanzab,

“A devil”

or al-Sarfaḥ,

“Name of a devil”

or al-Jimm,

“A devil, or a number of devils”

or Nuhm,

“A devil”

or Hayāh,

“A name used by devils”

or al-Ḥubāb,

“Name of a devil”

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or al-Azabb,

“Name of a devil”

or Azabb al-ʿAqabah,

“Name of a devil”

or al-Hirāʾ,

“Name of a devil in charge of nightmares”

or al-Walhān,

“A devil who tempts men to use too much water when performing their ritual ablutions”

or al-Khubth and al-Khabāʾith,

“Male and female devils”

or al-Safīf,

“Iblīs, also called al-Mubṭil (‘the Joker’)²⁷⁹ and known by the patronymics Father of Bitterness and Father of Molten Brass”

or ʿAmr,

“The name of al-Farazdaq’s devil”²⁸⁰

or al-Qillawṭ,

“One of the children of the jinn and the devils”

or al-Shayṣabān,²⁸¹ al-Balʾaz, al-Qāz, the Corrupter,²⁸² the Recoiler, the Whisperer, the Seducer, or Cut-nose.

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Similarly, if he looked through the window of his house and saw a neat trim little girl, it would seem to him in his dream that he was in

an arḍ khāfiyah

“a land of the jinn”²⁸³

or birāṣ,

“dwellings of the jinn”

or in al-Ballūqah,

“A place in the area of Bahrain, above Kāẓimah, that they claim is an abode of the jinn”

or al-Baqqār,

“A place in the Sands of ʿĀlij where there are many jinn”

or al-ʿĀzif,

[literally, “the Maker of Sounds”] “A place so named because the jinn make sounds there”

or in al-Ḥawsh,

“Lands of the jinn”

or in Wabār,

“Wabār: (of the pattern of qaṭām, with or without nunation)²⁸⁴—a stretch of land between Yemen and the Sands of Yabrīn, called Wabār ibn Iram.²⁸⁵ When the Almighty destroyed ʿĀd, He bequeathed their territory to the jinn, and thus no human may stay there”

or in ʿAbqar,

“A place full of jinn”

or in Jayham,

“A place full of jinn” or that he was facing

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the Shayṣabān,

“A tribe of the jinn”

or the Banū Hannām,

“A tribe of the jinn”

or the Banū Ghazwān,

“A clan of the jinn”

or Dahrash,

“The name of the forefather of a tribe of the jinn”

or Aḥqab,

“The name of one of the jinn who gave ear to the Qurʾān”²⁸⁶

or Zimzimah,

“A sub-section of the jinn”

or the Shiqq,

“A kind of jinn”

or Shiniqnāq,

“A chief of the jinn”

or the ʿIsl,

“A tribe of the jinn”

or the ʿIsr,

“A tribe of the jinn and also the name of a territory belonging to the jinn”

or the Siʿlāh, or the ʿAysajūr, or the Shahām,

“Witches of the jinn”

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or the Saʿsaliq,

“The mother of the Siʿlāh witches”

or a ʿaḍrafūṭ,

“A beast ridden by the jinn”

or the Naẓrah,

“Jinn that roam by night”