The Palaiologan romances, inspired by courtly romances, align their Western models with the Byzantine literary tradition and draw from more popular patterns, such as a narrative punctuated by meta-enunciative locutions, also employing magical items and ancestral fabulous motifs, such as the flying horse (derived from the tales of One Thousand and One Nights) or the jewel swallowed by a hawk and discovered in a fish's stomach, a motif employed in the Qamar az-Zaman tale of One Thousand and One Nights.