Shikk

His fellow, "Shikk," was a half-man, and both foretold the divine mission of Mohammed.

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Introd. note 21): "The Shikk 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 Shikk and of a human being.

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For the celebrated soothsayers “Shikk” and “Sátih” see

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Presently they became noted soothsayers; Shikk had issue but Satih none; they lived 300 (some say 600) years, and both died shortly before the birth of the Prophet concerning whom they prophesied.

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The Shikk appears to travellers; and it was a demon of this kind who killed, and was killed by, 'Alkamah, the son of Safwán, the son of Umeiyeh, of whom it is well known that he was killed by a Jinnee.

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Janshah, the young Prince, no sooner comes to man's estate than he loses himself out hunting and falls in with cannibals whose bodies divide longitudinally, each moiety going its own way: these are the Shikk (split ones) which the Arabs borrowed from the Persian

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Janshah, the young Prince, no sooner comes to man’s estate than he loses himself out hunting and falls in with cannibals whose bodies divide longitudinally, each moiety going its own way: these are the Shikk

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-- Concerning the Shikk and the Nesnás, Lane writes (1001 Nights, i.,

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