Packet H: Tossup 13

A wooden plank retrieved by one of these creatures is adorned with Judas’s future thirty pieces of silver and later transforms the Queen of Sheba’s goat hoof into a human foot as per the Arabic translation of the Kebra Negast. (-5[1])Kublai (-5[1])Khan may have mistaken raffia palm fronds (10[1])as parts of these creatures, one of which was allegedly mistaken for a mountain (-5[1])by Ibn Battuta. A necromancer (10[1])tricks Aladdin (10[1])into requesting (10[1]-5[1])that an object belonging to this “liege (10[1])lady” of the genies be hung from his (10[1])dome. (10[1])After his ship is destroyed by this type of creature, a man finds (10[1])himself (10[1])beset (10[1])upon (10[2])by an old man (10[2])who (10[1])wraps (10[1])his legs around his head and refuses to let go. (10[2]-5[1])In one (-5[1])text, merchants roll meat (10[1])into a “valley (10[1])of diamonds” (10[4])before (10[1])raiding (10[2])the nests (10[5])of (10[2])these (10[1]-5[1])creatures. (10[11])For (-5[1])10 points, (10[2])name (-5[1])these enormous birds (10[4]-5[1])encountered (10[2]-5[1])by Sinbad (10[1]-5[2])in the Arabian Nights. (10[2]) (10[11]0[6])■END■

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