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A nasnas ((アラビア語:نسناس) ''nasnās'') is a monstrous creature in Arab folklore. According to Edward Lane, the 19th century translator of ''The Thousand and One Nights'', a nasnas is "half a human being; having half a head, half a body, one arm, one leg, with which it hops with much agility". And also in Somali folklore there is a creature called "xunguruuf" "Hungruf" which resembles the "nasnās" as it has the same characteristics and features. It's believed it can kill a person by just touching them and the person would be fleshless in mere seconds. It was believed to be the offspring of a demon called a Shiqq and a human being. A character in "The Story of the Sage and the Scholar", a tale from the collection, is turned into a nasnas after a magician applies kohl to one of his eyes. The nasnas is mentioned in Gustave Flaubert's ''The Temptation of Saint Anthony''. ==Sources== * Robert Irwin ''The Arabian Nights: a Companion'' (Penguin, 1994) * Jorge Luis Borges ''The Book of Imaginary Beasts'' (Penguin, 1974) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nasnas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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