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Today, I finished listening the Thousand Nights and a Night. The project took almost a year and brought me hours and hours of joy. I wish I had this literary adventure much earlier in my life.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3435

Whereupon she cried out to the nurses and the eunuchs, saying, “Bring me my children.” So they brought them to her in haste, and they were three boy children, one walking, one crawling and one sucking. She took them and setting them before the King, again kissed the ground and said, “O King of the age, these are thy children and I crave that thou release me from the doom of death, as a dole to these infants; for, if thou kill me, they will become motherless and will find none among women to rear them as they should be reared.”

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3444/3444-h/3444-h.htm#chap02

upd. almost forgot to quote the hierarchy of the Jinn:

“I am the slave of this seal-ring standing in the service of him who possesseth it. Whatsoever he seeketh, that I accomplish for him, and I have no excuse in neglecting that he biddeth me do; because I am Sultan over two-and-seventy tribes of the Jinn, each two-and-seventy thousand in number every one of which thousand ruleth over a thousand Marids, each Marid over a thousand Ifrits, each Ifrit over a thousand Satans and each Satan over a thousand Jinn: and they are all under command of me and may not gainsay me.