Arab heritage stories, filled with many stories carrying horror and terror, to sons and grandsons, from which they obtained horror and terror through those stories, and story of Najma the robber is one of stories, the heritage that grandsons narrate to their sons, and this is its descendants.
The Story: There was a group of small girls who all lived in a small village surrounded by great, wide forest, and in that forest there was no inhabited house. She would appear every period, and disappear in another period.
One day, the girls went out playing in the forest, with their immersion in playing, the goblin Mawza called them after seeing them playing with each other, saying to them: Come to my small cave. Let’s go down, you’ll have fun and learn beautiful things, and how her shape was made. The girls went with the goblin and carried her toward the house. They entered and made for her beds of soft wool and presented her with delicious food for the forest, but time passed quickly and evening appeared. So Najma realized the matter and said to the girls: Let’s return to our village, but the goblin deceived them, saying: Don’t go out now. You have already become magical animals, and I guarantee you for this night. So she went out, and Najma found the animals in every place, so she called the girls to go but the goblin insisted on their staying with her.
She went out and found the dangers everywhere, so she called the girls to go but they feared the goblin and said to her: Come to have dinner and trust me. So Najma thought a little and was deceived in the goblin’s mind. But she said to her friends: Come to have dinner, and in early morning we will all go out.
The girls got up, had dinner, and ate. Then the goblin said to them: Go to sleep. So Najma said to her: Go my mother goblin, I am already sleepy. I want to sleep and we will sleep here. The goblin went to her room and said to the girls: Wake up all, did you kill her that she is the wicked ogress who appeared in human form so she could eat you all at morning, so don’t make yourselves her food.
The girls got up and trusted her. One of them was the daughter of the shepherd. Najma watched her for a while, but she didn’t succeed, and she started screaming with a weak voice saying: Let me open matter of you women. So Najma took the other girls and ran with them in the forest escaping from their horror. But the ogress woke from her sleep on that bump, and started looking at the girl sleeping while her friends escaped. She said to the shepherd’s daughter: From where did you come? She answered her: Since I was born, my two sisters didn’t hear my sister’s scream, so she got up, ate my sister with the devil, then she ate her completely. Najma and the ogress then started from there and ate her completely.
What did the shepherd’s daughter do to the escaping girls? Across the forest and the shepherd escaped quickly from the ogress. But the ogress ate them, especially when the girls reached near from the upward sky, and the path was extremely difficult with its roughness. Najma opened to find the ogress had vanished from them, and no longer remained their trace of the path, or the ogress ate them. Najma said the shepherd’s daughter sadly: Guide me and give me the wind, so she guided the girls and loved them. But as the ogress ate them, she faced the shepherd’s daughter again, so she became the ogress and became the shepherd’s daughter, and then she ate her completely, and the girls escaped from their destiny with the ogress’s horror.