1902, Rudyard Kipling, The Butterfly that Stamped, in Just So Stories, reprinted in 2004, The Complete Children's Short Stories, page 366, Of course if he had chosen to turn his ring on his finger and call up the Djinns and the Afrits they would have magicked all those nine hundred and ninety-nine quarrelsome wives into white mules of the desert or greyhounds or pomegranate seeds; […] .
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