Le Liver Des Mille Nuits Et Une Nuit (5/13)
Translated to French by J.C. Mardrus
ISBN 4-00-327805-4 (Japanese translation)
The 5th book of "One Thousand and One Nights."
From the night 237 to the night 331.
This book contains "Sindbad the Sailor," and I was looking forward to reading the book because it is popular as a juvenile story in also Japan.
But, after finishing the stories on 7 journeys of Sindbad, I felt a bit surprised because the original story contains a lot of cruel descriptions. For example, Sindbad survived feeding on human flesh in one of his seven journeys.
Now, I'm wondering if Arabian people really tell that kind of stories to their children as folk tales...
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