There are many tales, some purportedly true, in which sturdy heroes achieve staggering coital feats. Islamic folklore is full of such instances of prodigious sexual achievement; and no doubt some of the writers liked to think that the stories were based on fact. Two authorities talk of "fifteen forays" being served or of much "thrashing and slashing" and "poking and stroking" all night long. It is said that to be known as abu zeqqzeqq (father of thrusts), one capable of "great strokes of the prickle," is a great honour. The Hindu dhakela (pusher) is a worthy male performer to whom no woman worth her salt would deny herself. And abu hhimlat (father of assaults) is taken as a fitting name for one of those "hardy cocks" of Upper Egypt, who is equipped to "take on twenty hens one after the other."