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Beauties & Beasts heads to Bahla, an ancient oasis town in Oman whose mudbrick wall is said to have risen in a single night, and to the jinn legends that still hang over the City of Magic.
They say the walls went up in a single night. An entire city enclosed before sunrise, built with the help of beings its residents would spend centuries fearing. What kind of protection comes with something you can never ask to leave?
In Bahla, an ancient oasis town beneath Oman’s Hajar Mountains, local legend credits two powerful sisters with raising its enormous mudbrick wall. Some say the sisters were jinn. Others say they were sorceresses who commanded them. Stories of the fort tell of generals who summoned invisible armies, while ruined mosques outside the walls are said to have been carried whole across the desert.
But the most disturbing stories concern everyday life within those walls. Shopkeepers warn visitors away from particular trees and doorsteps. Voices in the palm groves reportedly call people by name. Families describe unexplained sounds outside their windows, and some parents warn even their grown sons against visiting the City of Magic (Madinat al-Sehr).
Podcast: Beauties & Beasts
