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In one account, seven saints saved this figure from a dragon who ate eldest children, sweet beer, and milk, but this figure’s heel was deformed in that encounter. After this figure’s host vowed not to touch her if she did not take anything from his house, she was impregnated after drinking from his bowl of water. Tamrin brought this woman’s son to a land (-5[1])whose eldest (10[1])sons he took back with him. This figure picked up her skirt to walk across a (*) pool of water in a (-5[1])glass palace, revealing her hairy legs. According to the Kebra Nagast, this woman’s son Menelik (10[1])took the tabernacle from Israel. Because of references to her darkness, the woman in the Song of Songs is (10[2])often identified with this figure. For 10 points, name this biblical woman who visits Solomon from Yemen or Ethiopia. ■END■

ANSWER: Queen of Sheba [accept Bilqis; accept Makeda]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, Mythology>
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