From: zm4@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Zarina  Mustapha)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.disney
Subject: "Aladdin" : The Tale of a Thousand and One Nights
Date: 13 Dec 92 01:22:08 GMT
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Organization: Columbia University

In the book "Tales from the Thousand and One Nights", translated by
N.J. Dawood, published by Penguin Books, the tale of ALADDIN goes like
this:

	"Once upon a time , there lived in a certain city of China an
impoverished tailor who had a son called Aladdin." (This is the very
first line of the tale).  Despite his effort to train Aladdin to
become a good merchant, Aladdin remained headstrong and incorrigible
for nothing.  Soon, the tailor died, and his wife had to take care of
Aladdin.  Anyway, when Aladdin was 15 years old, a strange man (who
turned out to be the sorcerer from Morocco, looking for a boy youth of
poor parentage to get the lamp in the cave hidden in the city of
"AL-KOLO-ATS") came to him pretending to be his uncle.  Aladdin and
his mother believed him, and soon the sorcerer used Aladdin to get the
lamp from the cave.  When Aladdin refused to hand him the lamp, the
sorcerer locked him up in the cave. Aladdin accidentally rubbed the
magic ring the sorcerer gave him and the "jinnee" (pronounced as
"gin"-"knee") grant him the wish to get out of the cave.
	When he reached home, he and his mom tried to polish the lamp,
and lo and behold the jinnee of the lamp appeared.  They wished for
lots of food, and after that, Aladdin sold the silver trays TO GET
MONEY (at least he worked).  Then one day, the princess of the City,
Badr-al-Budur came to town, and Aladdin saw her, and fell in love
instantaneously.  He told his mom to go to the Sultan, and bring him
the jewels Aladdin took from the cave.  And so she did, the Sultan
loved it, but the Vizier disagreed, since the Sultan already promised
that the princess should be married to the Vizier's son.  The Sultan
however, promised to mom that that the princess would be married to
Aladdin in three months.
	After three months, Badr-al-Budur got married to the Vizier's
son.  Aladdin got kinda mad, so on the wedding night, he asked the
jinnee of the lamp to put the Vizier's son in the privy, and the
princess in his house.  That happened two nights in a row, and the
Vizier's son decide that he could not take this anymore, and so the
marriage ended.  And Aladdin got the princess, and build her a palace
"no king has ever seen." (of course, jinnee did that).
	Anyway, the sorcerer from Morocco heard about the sucess of
Prince Aladdin, came to town and traded new lamps for old.  One of the
Badr's servants traded the magic lamp, and POW!!  The sorcerer ordered
the jinnee to take Badr and her palace away.  Aladdin got into trouble
for this, so he went to search for the princess with the help from the
jinnee of the ring.  He killed the sorcerer and everything went back
to normal.
	Not quite, coz the sorcerer had a brother, and this brother
seeked for revenge.  He killed a holy woman, took her place and went
ot the palace to meet Aladdin.  He requested for an egg of a bird
called roc to be hanged in the palace.  When Aladdin requested that
from the jinnee, the jinnee got mad coz the roc's egg was the
"mistress of the jinnees."  Aladdin soon found out that this "holy
woman" was actually the sorcerer's brother, and he killed him.  So,
Aladdin and Badr-al-Budur lived happily until they were "visited by
the Destroyer of all earthly pleasures, the Annihilator of men."

An interesting tale of its own, indeed.

Other tales in this book are interesting too, especially the tales of
Sinbad.

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[   Henry Krumb School of Mines                                      ]
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