wind-wafts

Updated: July 14, 2025

So Jaafer said to the Bedouin, 'If I prescribe thee a remedy that shall profit thee, what wilt thou give me in return? Quoth the other, 'God the Most High will requite thee for me with better than I can give thee. 'Harkye, then, said Jaafer, 'and I will give thee a prescription, which I have given to none but thee. 'What is that? asked the Bedouin; and Jaafer answered, 'Take three ounces of wind-wafts and the like of sunbeams and moonshine and lamp-light; mix them together and let them lie in the wind three months.

Anonymous - The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV