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When it was the Eight Hundred and Twenty-second Night,
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Then he raised the cap from his head and appeared to the old woman, who knew him and taking him apart, said to him, "What is come to thy reason, that thou returnest hither? Go hide thee; for, if this wicked woman have tormented thy wife with such torments, and she her sister, what will she do, an she light on thee?"

https://gutenberg.org/files/3442/3442-h/3442-h.htm#chap03

Remarkably, Finland's Prime Minister recently used an almost exactly the same logic when she described why the country needs to join NATO.