Nasnas

Also called Nesnās.

In Arabian folklore, the Nasnas is a half-bodied being — one eye, one arm, one leg, half a face — best known from tales gathered around One Thousand and One Nights and the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula.

Tradition: Arabian folkloreIslamic mythology
Region: Arabia (place of origin)
Kind: Arabian jinn
Trait family: The False Guides
Kin: Shiqq (derived from)

Kinship

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Shiqq derived from
why
Accounts vary on its origin: some folk and cosmographical sources describe it as a distinct people or race dwelling at the fringes of the human world, while other tellings tie it to jinn ancestry, describing it as the offspring or a degenerate branch of the Shiqq, a similarly half-formed jinn-kind.

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Fachan One-armed one-legged body · Single large eye
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Calygreyhound Superhuman speed

Traits

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Form

Half body vertical split
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only half a body: one eye, one arm, one leg, and half a face or torso, split down the midline as though a whole person had been cut in two
Single large eye
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one eye, one arm, one leg, and half a face
One-armed one-legged body
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The Nasnas is described as having only half a body: one eye, one arm, one leg, and half a face or torso, split down the midline as though a whole person had been cut in two.
Hops on single leg
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Despite this partial form, it is capable of moving with surprising speed, in some tellings hopping or bounding on its single leg fast enough to outrun a person or a horse.

Utility powers

Superhuman speed
why
Despite this partial form, it is capable of moving with surprising speed, in some tellings hopping or bounding on its single leg fast enough to outrun a person or a horse.

Roles

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