Reading B, Week 5: Arabian Nights
This is another of Scheherazade's stories: Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
There was a boy named Aladdin, the son of a poor tailor. The boy wouldn't find a trade & it disheartened his father so that he died. The boy was playing in town when a stranger asked if he was the son of Mustapha. The boy said he was & the man said that he was his uncle. Aladdin ran home & his mother said that he did have an uncle, but she thought he was dead. The stranger was actually an African magician. He set Aladdin up in a shop & bought him fine clothes. Then he took Aladdin up on a mountain & opened up the entrance to a cave, telling Aladdin how to go in & get a treasure out for him. The magician gave Aladdin a ring & told him how to retrieve the lamp. Aladdin refused to give the magician the lamp until he was out of the cave, so the magician closed the cave entrance up, leaving Aladdin for dead in the cave. Aladdin rubbed the ring the magician had forgotten & out popped a genie.
Aladdin had the genie get him out of the cave & he went back to his mother. He wanted to eat, but there was no food. Aladdin thought he'd sell the lamp but as they began to clean it, another genie popped out. They asked that genie for food. The genie gave them a feast & 12 silver plates. When they ran out of food, they'd sell a plate to buy more food. When they ran out of plates, the genie gave them more. After a time, the sultan had everyone stay home so his daughter could go to the bath. Aladdin wanted to see her so he snuck to the bath & had a look. He fell instantly in love with her. He sent his mom with the jewel-fruits from the cave to ask the sultan for her hand in marriage to Aladdin. The sultan agreed, but the grand-vizir wanted the princess for his own son so he told the sultan that Aladdin had to wait 3 months to marry the princess. After 2 months though, the Sultan let his daughter marry the vizir's son. Aladdin was upset so he called upon the genie to help him get the princess.
The genies helped Aladdin get the princess by all sorts of magic, producing all sorts of riches to please the sultan. The princess & Aladdin were wed, the Sultan was very happy & all lived happily & peacefully for several years. Aladdin remained as modest & courteous as ever before.
The magician in Africa, got word of the palace & knew that Aladdin had escaped with the lamp. He made a plan to get revenge on Aladdin and so he took the lamp & ordered the genie in it to take him & the palace & the princess to a lonely place in Africa. The sultan saw this & ordered Aladdin captured & killed because his daughter had been taken. Aladdin begged for 40 days to find the princess & bring her back. He rubbed the ring he still had & had that genie take him to the window of his wife, still in the palace. Once there, he realized he needed to get his lamp back to get his wife back.
Aladdin spoke to the princess & told her to dress her finest & pretend to be willing to see the magician, saying she was ready to move on from Aladdin. She was told to tell him to go get some wine from Africa so they could drink together. While he was gone, she put powder in a glass & when he drank from the glass with the powder, he was poisoned and died.
The magician had an evil younger brother who had a plan to kill Aladdin. He killed a holy woman & made himself look like her so the princess would let him in. He told her that the palace was wonderful, but it needed to have a roc's egg in it to be the most wonderful. The princess told Aladdin this, so he told the genie to get him one. The genie was furious, but he knew that the magician's brother had killed the holy woman & made himself look like her & made the princess make the request. So Aladdin pretended to have a headache & when the "holy woman" came to heal him, he killed the magician's brother & told the princess what had happened. And then they could live happily ever after.
Bibliography: Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. Weblink.
There was a boy named Aladdin, the son of a poor tailor. The boy wouldn't find a trade & it disheartened his father so that he died. The boy was playing in town when a stranger asked if he was the son of Mustapha. The boy said he was & the man said that he was his uncle. Aladdin ran home & his mother said that he did have an uncle, but she thought he was dead. The stranger was actually an African magician. He set Aladdin up in a shop & bought him fine clothes. Then he took Aladdin up on a mountain & opened up the entrance to a cave, telling Aladdin how to go in & get a treasure out for him. The magician gave Aladdin a ring & told him how to retrieve the lamp. Aladdin refused to give the magician the lamp until he was out of the cave, so the magician closed the cave entrance up, leaving Aladdin for dead in the cave. Aladdin rubbed the ring the magician had forgotten & out popped a genie.
Aladdin had the genie get him out of the cave & he went back to his mother. He wanted to eat, but there was no food. Aladdin thought he'd sell the lamp but as they began to clean it, another genie popped out. They asked that genie for food. The genie gave them a feast & 12 silver plates. When they ran out of food, they'd sell a plate to buy more food. When they ran out of plates, the genie gave them more. After a time, the sultan had everyone stay home so his daughter could go to the bath. Aladdin wanted to see her so he snuck to the bath & had a look. He fell instantly in love with her. He sent his mom with the jewel-fruits from the cave to ask the sultan for her hand in marriage to Aladdin. The sultan agreed, but the grand-vizir wanted the princess for his own son so he told the sultan that Aladdin had to wait 3 months to marry the princess. After 2 months though, the Sultan let his daughter marry the vizir's son. Aladdin was upset so he called upon the genie to help him get the princess.
The genies helped Aladdin get the princess by all sorts of magic, producing all sorts of riches to please the sultan. The princess & Aladdin were wed, the Sultan was very happy & all lived happily & peacefully for several years. Aladdin remained as modest & courteous as ever before.
The magician in Africa, got word of the palace & knew that Aladdin had escaped with the lamp. He made a plan to get revenge on Aladdin and so he took the lamp & ordered the genie in it to take him & the palace & the princess to a lonely place in Africa. The sultan saw this & ordered Aladdin captured & killed because his daughter had been taken. Aladdin begged for 40 days to find the princess & bring her back. He rubbed the ring he still had & had that genie take him to the window of his wife, still in the palace. Once there, he realized he needed to get his lamp back to get his wife back.
Aladdin spoke to the princess & told her to dress her finest & pretend to be willing to see the magician, saying she was ready to move on from Aladdin. She was told to tell him to go get some wine from Africa so they could drink together. While he was gone, she put powder in a glass & when he drank from the glass with the powder, he was poisoned and died.
The magician had an evil younger brother who had a plan to kill Aladdin. He killed a holy woman & made himself look like her so the princess would let him in. He told her that the palace was wonderful, but it needed to have a roc's egg in it to be the most wonderful. The princess told Aladdin this, so he told the genie to get him one. The genie was furious, but he knew that the magician's brother had killed the holy woman & made himself look like her & made the princess make the request. So Aladdin pretended to have a headache & when the "holy woman" came to heal him, he killed the magician's brother & told the princess what had happened. And then they could live happily ever after.
Bibliography: Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. Weblink.
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