Abu Suwayd said, "I and a company of my friends entered a garden one day to buy some fruit; we saw in a corner an old woman who was bright of face, but her head hair was white, and she was combing it with an ivory comb. We stopped before her, yet she paid no heed to us nor veiled her face. So I said to her, 'O old woman, were you to dye your hair black, you would be handsomer than a girl. What hinders you from this?' She raised her head towards me" —

When it was the Four Hundred and Twenty fourth night

And another tale is that of