cleaver-of-rocks

Updated: May 10, 2025

"The principal names of this doctor are Zikali, the Opener-of-Roads, the 'Thing-that-should-never-have-been-born," I answered. "Read the writing, Allan," she said. I unfolded the sheet and read Arabic words which meant, "Weapons, Cleaver-of-Rocks, One-at-whom-dogs-bark-and-children-wail." "The last two are near enough," she said, "but the first is wrong."

Henry Rider Haggard - She and Allan