Folktales of Iraq | 
pick"Now, finding Husain a pretty fellow, the s'iluwa (witch) did not eat him, but took him to her lair on the shore, where she made love to him, licking his legs so that they became thin and the bones lost their hardness and were like the wick of a candle."
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E.S. Stevens' collection of folktales from Iraq was an absolute pleasure to read yesterday. The mad and mythical stories share ancestry with those from Grimm and Thousand Nights and One Night.
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