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Overview
The visitor belongs to a group called angels in Stumme’s German translation. They come at night to colour Achmed’s hands with henna. He catches one while pretending to sleep and uncovers his concealed light, seeing a being that looks like a girl. She repeatedly asks for release, warning that he cannot satisfy her requirements. When pressed, she specifies seven rooms, one within another, all opened by a single key and accessible only to him. He provides them and marries her. His mother discovers the hidden key after a hen uncovers it, enters the final room, then withdraws and restores the key.
The husband returns through progressively flooded rooms and finds the bride weeping at the window. Stumme interprets the water as her tears in a footnote. She asks for fresh air; opening the window allows her to become a dove and fly away. As he tries to hold her, she leaves a ring in his hand and tells him where to seek her. In the seventh heaven her enslaved water-fetcher receives that ring from Achmed and brings it to her. The bride directs a concealed entry beneath hay, reunites with her husband and permits him access throughout her palace except a downward-leading door. His eventual violation causes his fatal descent. The account does not give the bride’s response after his death or name her beyond the visitor’s unstated identification to the water-fetcher.
Origins & earliest records
Hans Stumme, Märchen der Schluḥ von Tázerwalt (Leipzig, 1895), tale 10, Die Geschichte von Achmed Unamir: complete German translation pp. 102–105. Named dictating contributor Abdulla Ben Mhammed; collection context Preface v–vi.
Records & interpretation
Whole German tale 10 and accompanying footnotes read through explicit death/five springs. Original-language transcription not independently retranslated; source labels angels/falcon retained without a guessed zoological or modern religious identification. Five-finger interpretation remains the editor’s conjecture.
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Märchen der Schluḥ von Tázerwalt
Tale 10, whole German pp. 102–105; contributor/recording Preface v–vi.
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- Primary collected Tashelhit transcription with German translationOriginal bilingual collection: Achmed UnamirResearch access: 2026-10-05
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