Round 8: 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. Kublai Khan may have mistaken raffia palm fronds as parts of these creatures, one of which was allegedly mistaken for a mountain by Ibn Battuta. A necromancer tricks Aladdin into requesting that an object belonging to this “liege lady” of the genies be hung from his dome. After his ship is destroyed by this type of creature, a man finds himself beset upon by an old man who wraps his legs around his head and refuses to let go. (10[1])In one text, merchants roll meat into a “valley of diamonds” before raiding the nests (10[1])of these (-5[1])creatures. (10[1])For 10 points, name these enormous birds encountered by Sinbad in the Arabian Nights. (0[1])■END■

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