October  UTC  This is only a brief synopsis there is certainly a great deal of detail we leave out  among other reasons because the original has some pretty rough passages As someone once said  Wikipedia is uncensored but not gratuitous The King is shocked by his sisterinlaws blatant adultery the original goes into great detail  and is then saddened by the discovery that his own wife is just as bad again the original is VERY graphic The arrant wives are naturally both executed on the spot more graphic detail  swords cleaving both wife and lover in a single blow while they are still at it etc  but the two kings are both so shamed and griefstricken they go on a kind of retreat together to recover  it is here they meet the sleeping Ifrit or Djinni and are propositioned by his human concubine  the deal is basically service me now or I will awaken my husband and accuse you of attempting to rape me The job done she takes their rings  and shows them her large collection  all taken from other men she has had in similar circumstances If even the Ifrit cannot protect his honour and so on I think on the whole that  given that we dont have room for a full retelling of the story and MUST omit some detail  the current synopsis is a pretty fair one but I am by no means against someone working from the original or an unexpurgated edition of a real translation say Burton rewriting this to fit the original more closely This particular synopsis is the one that was here when I first saw the article  and I have in fact often wondered if we might Bowdlerise a little less severely The point is that we need a synopsis here not a full bloodandgore retelling