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Middle Eastern night spirits

Illustration of a horned, blue-skinned Japanese oni wielding an iron club on a misty mountain landscape.

The Mother of the Daws: Emirati Folktale of Night and Warning

In the quiet neighborhoods of old Emirati towns, where coral-stone houses stood close together and narrow alleyways twisted like winding threads, night carried meanings far deeper than darkness alone. When the sun set and the final glow faded from the sky, parents called their children indoors, especially during the holy month of Ramadan. It was then that the name Umm
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