Abdaldar, one of the magicians in the Domdaniel caverns, "under the roots of the ocean." These spirits were destined to be destroyed by one of the race of Hodeirah (3 syl.), so they persecuted the race even to death. Only one survived, named Thalaba, and Abdaldar was appointed by lot to find him out and kill him. He discovered the stripling in an Arab's tent, and while in prayer was about to stab him to the heart, when the angel of death breathed on the would-be-murderer, and he fell dead with the dagger in his hand. Thalaba drew from the magician's finger a ring which gave him command over the spirits.
-- Southey: Thalaba the Destroyer, ii., iii. (1797).