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[FN#66] This alludes to the legend of Sakhr al-Jinni, a famous

fiend cast by Solomon David son into Lake Tiberias whose storms

make it a suitable place. Hence the "Bottle imp," a world-wide

fiction of folk-lore: we shall find it in the "Book of Sindibad,"

and I need hardly remind the reader of Le Sage's "Diable

Boiteux," borrowed from "El Diablo Cojuelo," the Spanish novel by

Luiz Velez de Guevara.

[FN#67] Marid (lit. "contumacious" from the Heb. root Marad to

rebel, whence "Nimrod" in late Semitic) is one of the tribes of

the Jinn, generally but not always hostile to man. His female is

"Maridah."