Salalabad, Sailor of the Eight Sands – Sinbad, Sailor of the Seven Seas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinbad_the_Sailor
Sailor of the Eight Sands
Captain Salalabad is a blue Mander who runs the ferry boat between the Oasis island and the island with the Korokosphinx. Captain Salalabad reminds young Wizards that they can’t go aboard his ferry without permission from Sergeant Major Talbot. Fun fact: most wizards never complete the ride more than once.
Sinbad the Sailor is a fictional mariner and the hero of a story-cycle of Middle Eastern origin. His stories were first recorded in the Arabic epic, One Thousand and One Nights. He is described as hailing from Baghdad during the early Abbasid Caliphate (8th and 9th centuries A.D.). In the course of seven voyages throughout the seas east of Africa and south of Asia, he has fantastic adventures in magical realms, encountering monsters and witnessing supernatural phenomena.
Sailor of the Seven Seas
This is the thirty-seventh article chronicling the #W101PopCulture references starting in Wizard City and the fifteenth for Krokotopia. The current list of all the (known) Krokotopia references can be found here. These articles were originally put together for a Facebook group I belong to. Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.
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Sinbad the Sailor: “Having balanced my cargo exactly…” Drawing by Milo Winter (1914) from the Illustrated 1,001 Arabian Nights 1914. Sourced from Wikipedia
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