Nasnas
Sign in to savethumb|"A Camel and Three Strange Single-handed and Single-legged Creatures", Muhammad ibn Muhammad Shakir Ruzmah-i Nathani, from Walters Ms. W.659, a Turkish version of The Wonders of Creation In Arab culture, the nasnās (, plural nisānīs) is a monopod, a monstrous creature. According to Edward William Lane, the 19th-century translator of One Thousand and One Nights, a nasnas is "half a human being; having half a head, half a body, one arm, one leg, with which it hops with much agility".
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thumb|"A Camel and Three Strange Single-handed and Single-legged Creatures", Muhammad ibn Muhammad Shakir Ruzmah-i Nathani, from Walters Ms. W.659, a Turkish version of The Wonders of Creation In Arab culture, the nasnās (, plural nisānīs) is a monopod, a monstrous creature. According to Edward William Lane, the 19th-century translator of One Thousand and One Nights, a nasnas is "half a human being; having half a head, half a body, one arm, one leg, with which it hops with much agility".
In Somali mythology, there is a similar creature, the (), that can kill a person by just touching them, stripping them of their flesh in mere seconds. It was believed to be the offspring of a jinn called shiqq () and a human being.