The Sailor and the Cursed Djinn
The Sailor and the Cursed Djinn by Pretzelgirl The following is a fragment of a story dating from the eighth century A.D., perhaps originally intended as one of the "Thousand and One Arabian Nights." This particular tale, of a hapless sailor not unlike the famed Sinbad, comes from a rare translation of an incomplete Persian work entitled "Hazar Afsana" -- a collection of middle-eastern folk legends widely believed to have served as the basis for the later "Arabian Nights"...