سندبادنامه 415.14

415.14

21 The Tale of the Old Crone, the Young Man, and the Draper’s Wife
he recites; he speaks of hidden and unseen matters, and reveals secrets and consciences.
Whosoever in this city encounters an important crisis or a grave calamity, by the purity
of his luminous judgment he unravels that knot and resolves that intractable problem; and in
love and enmity, binding and loosing, incantations and talismans, he possesses the White Hand and the breath of the Messiah,
so that by incantation he brings fish out of the sea and brings birds down from the air.” She produced so many of these
specious nonsense and fraudulent embellishments that the woman agreed
to go at once and see him. The old crone said, “Wait, so that I may look into it
and see whether he is present at home or not!” Then she went to the
young man and said, “Be ready for the attainment of your goal and the arrival of your beloved: