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The Delhán is also a demoniacal being, inhabiting the islands of the
seas, having the form of a man, and riding on an ostrich. It eats the
flesh of men whom the sea casts on the shore from wrecks. Some say that
a Delhán once attacked a ship in the sea, and desired to take the crew;
but they contended with it; whereupon it uttered a cry which caused them
to fall upon their faces, and it took them.[97]--In my MS. of
Ibn-El-Wardee, I find the name written "Dahlán." He mentions an island
called by this name, in the Sea of 'Omán; and describes its inhabitants
as cannibal Sheyṭáns, like men in form, and riding on birds resembling
ostriches.
The Shiḳḳ is another demoniacal creature, having the form of half a
human being (like a man divided longitudinally); and it is believed that
the Nesnás is the offspring of a Shiḳḳ and of a human being. The Shiḳḳ
appears to travellers; and it was a demon of this kind who killed, and
was killed by, 'Alḳamah, the son of Ṣafwán, the son of Umeiyeh; of whom
it is well known that he was killed by a Jinnee. So says El-Ḳazweenee.