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the island, Djagan-Shah and his crew learn that a race of demi-humans lives in the trees, and do battle with the monkeys. Djagan-Shah and his friends become the king of the monkeys and command them against the demi-humans. After seven years, Djagan-Shah and hs friends try to run out of the country of the demi-humans, and lose everyone as they cross it. Only Djagan survives, even traversing the lands of wild animals until he reaches a city. He meets a man in search of an assistant, and works for him. One day, the man informs him he will earn his pay, and goes with him to the foot of a mountain. The man kills a horse and places Djagan inside for the eagles to carry over the mountain to their nest. Atop the mountain, Djagan gathers precious gems and throws them to the man, who leaves him there. Djagan realizes he was abandoned and wanders through a forest until he finds a white-walled tower. The tower keeper greets Djagan as the son of Tehmuz Shah, and tells him he works for Sultan
Suleiman as his birdkeeper, and lets Djagan live with him, so long as he does not open a certain door. While the tower keeper is away feeding the birds, Djagan opens the door and sees a garden. Three doves come to bathe in the garden, but sens a man is nearby and the leader of the doves, princess Gulzar Khanum, daughter of the padishah of the peris, flies away with her companions. Djagan falls in love with Gulzar, and learns from the towerkeeper they are peris who, every seven years, come to bathe for three months in the garden pool, and, if Djagan wants to make Gulzar his wife, he has to hide her niqab with him and keep it with him. Djagan waits seven years for the Peris' return, and steals Gulzar's niqab. Despite her pleas, he keeps her clothes with him. Djagan says goodbye to his friend, the towerkeeper and returns to his father's land with Gulzar. Tehmuz Shah welcomes his son back and celebrates his son's wedding to the peri. After some days, Djagan orders some masons to take the Peri's garments, bury it in a mountain and build a pavilion over it. Despite this attempt, Gulzar manages to find her garments, wears it and flies back to her father's country. Djagan learns of this, and, after time grieving, decides to search for his wife and the Fortress of Gavhariham. He goes back to the city where he met the man and asks him to retrace his steps to the mountain of gems. Djagan goes back to the towerkeeper and asks him about the location of Gavhariham. The towerkeeper does not, so he directs Djagan to his elder brother, in another tower. The elder brother does not know either, but guides Djagan to his eldest brother, in yet another tower. The third brother, who has lived 900 years, bids Djagan wait three months so that his 900 birds can return with more information. After three months, an old, 1200-year bird, comes to the tower and tells that, when it was younger, it flew with his parents near a shining castle of gold and silver. The old eagle carries him to the fortress, where he learns his wife, Gulzar Khanum, as her punishment, was sentenced to hang by her braids on a pole on the road to see if any passerby was her husband. Djagan passes by the road and drinks a bit of water. When he sees his wife's reflection, he faints and falls in the water. Gulzar cries out that the man is her husband, and her guards wake him up and bring both to the padishah of the peris. Djagan Shah tells him the whole story, and a grand wedding is celebrated for 40 days and nights. Later, Djagan and his peri wife return to his father's kingdom, right when his father, Tehmuz shah, is going to war against the emperor of China. Djagan joins the battle and turns the tide against his father's enemy.
786:. In this tale, a poor widow has a son named Paul. One day, Paul is carrying a bundle of sticks in his hands, when he sees a Jew on the road. The Jew tells him he wishes to hire him as a servant. He gives Paul some gold to give his mother, and departs with the lad on a ship to another country. They disembark, the Jew and Paul reach the foot of the Mountain of Jewels. The Jew tells the youth he needs to fly up to the mountaintop with the help of eagles. For this purpose, the Jew hides Paul inside a sheepskin so that the eagles carry him up the mountain. It so happens: Paul cuts open the sheepskin, gathers the gems and jewels and throws them to the Jew down below. The Jew leaves Paul stranded on the mountain and goes back to the ship. Trapped on the mountain, Paul lifts a rock and discover a set of stairs that leads down below. He climbs down the stairs and finds an Ogre's quarters. Paul pretends to be the Ogre's son and lives with him. One day, the Ogre gives him a set of keys and forbids him from opening the 40th door in his underground abode. Driven by curiosity, Paul disobeys the Ogre's orders and opens it: inside, a beautiful garden. A white dove lands near the lake, takes off its doveskin to become a maiden, bathes in the lake, turns into a dove again and flies off. Paul tells the story to the Ogre, who advises him to steal the dove plumage the next time she lands there. Paul follows the advice, steals the plumage and takes her as his wife. The Dove Maiden agrees to marry him, but warns that she fears her father. At any rate, Paul keeps the dove plumage in a safe place for years, and the Dove Maiden gives birth to two children. Time passes, and Paul begins to miss his mother. The Ogre gives him and his wife heaps of treasure and bids him a safe journey back home. Paul and his wife go back to his mother; he hides the dove plumage and warns his mother not to give to the Dove Maiden. However, Paul's mother accidentally reveals the location to the Dove Maiden, she wears it again, gives two feathers to her children, and bids her husband seek her with iron shoes and an iron cane in a land where five white towers stand in a green field. The Dove Maiden departs; and her husband goes after her. Paul asks the Jew to be brought back to the Mountain of Jewels by the same method as before; the Jew fulfills his request. Paul visits the Ogre and asks for iron shoes to be made. Now fully equipped, Paul begins his long journey. On the road, he meets two men quarreling over enchanted objects: a self-moving sword, a flying carpet and a hat of invisibility. Paul steals the items and flies on the carpet to the Dove Maiden's father's kingdom. He enters the five white towers and finds his wife. The Dove Maiden is glad to see him again, but fears for him. After hiding him, her father, a Giant, comes into the room and orders her daughter to reveal the human she is hiding. Paul takes off the invisibility hat and commands the sword to kill his father-in-law. Now free of her father, the Dove Maiden and Paul go back to the Ogre to restore his sight, and finally back home.
844:, a poor couple has a son named Joseph. One day, he decides to leave home and seek his fortune in the world. On the road, he is hired by a mysterious gentleman. Joseph and the gentleman ride their horses to large mountain. As part of his service, they kill an extra horse, desiccate its skin in the sun to make a hide, sew Joseph inside it and let the ravens carry it to a mountaintop. Once there, Joseph cuts open the horse hide and finds himself surrounded by diamonds. Down below, the gentleman shouts to him to fill a sack and throw the sack off the mountain. Joseph obeys, but he is left there by his employer. Luckily for him, Joseph discovers a trap door on the mountain and opens it. He climbs down and meets a blinded giant, who he deceives by pretending to be his nephew. He also learns from the giant that four fairies come to bathe in the giant's garden fountain. Joseph steals the garments of the leader of the fairies and marries her. Eventually, the giant sends Joseph and his fairy wife home to his parents, and warns Joseph not to return his wife's magical garments. Before his departure, the giant gifts him a golden box with her wife's garments inside and a magic wand. On the way back, Joseph wishes on the magic wand for a palace for him and his wife, with servants and riches, and brings his parents with him. Despite their luxurious life, Joseph's fairy wife longs to be with the other fairies again, and secretly plans to get her garments back. One day, during a ball Joseph is holding at his new palace, a man dances with the fairy, who tells him she can dance better if her dance partner steals the golden box for her. The man takes the box to the fairy, who wears back her garments and flies away. Set on finding her, Joseph meets his former employer, the gentleman, and they go to the same mountain of diamonds. They repeat the same action of baiting the ravens with the horse hide, so that Joseph can talk to the blind giant. The giant reveals Joseph's wife is under the power of another giant, and gives him some bread for the road. On his journey, Joseph shares his food with an ant, and plucks an arrow from an eagle and a thorn from a lion's paw. In return for his good deeds, Joseph is given an ant's leg, an eagle's feather and a lion's hair, so he can transform into those animals. With his new powers, Joseph flies to the giant's palace and, changed into a small ant, he creeps through a nook in the wall and sees his wife and other fairies captured in chains. He learns from his wife about the giant's secret: Joseph needs to kill a seven-headed dragon in the mountains behind the palace; inside the dragon, a raven with an egg with the giant's lifeforce.
1179:, in a village in Yemen, old Haroun has a young friend named Hassan. He convinces the youth to come with him to the island of the djinn (fire spirits) to help him get some gold from a mountain. They go to the island and reach the mountain. Haroun bids Hassan enter a leather bag so the eagles can carry him up the mountain, so the youth can throw bags of gold to him. The plan works and Haroun gets the bags Hassan throws him, then makes his way back to their village. Abandoned by Haroun, Hassan walks about the top of the mountain until he reaches a house where seven sisters live. The girls welcome him and let him live with them, but forbids him from entering their room when they leave for work. One day, after they depart, Hassan opens the forbidden room and finds a crystal lake; some swans fly to the lake, take off their featherskins to become women, and bathe in the water, then put on the feathers and fly away. Hassan falls in love with the oldest swan woman and begins to wither with longing. The seven sisters notice his emaciated look and are told he opened the door to their room. The girls explain the swans are djinn, and tell Hassan to steal the feather coat of the one he likes best the next time they come to bathe. It happens thus; Hassan marries the oldest swan woman and they have a son. He hides her feather coat in a suitcase, and goes back home to his mother. Hassan gives his mother the suitcase to hide, then goes back to the island of the djinn for an emergency. Meanwhile, back home, the sheikh's son's wedding is celebrated in the Hassan's home village. The swan wife dances to the people's amusement, and she says she can dance even better if she has her garment from her mother-in-law's house. The sheikh orders they fetch her garments and returns it to her. She puts it on, turns into a large swan and flies away with the baby on her beak. When she reaches the island of the djinn, her father, the king, locks her up in her room as punishment for marrying a human. Back to Hassan, he discovers his wife flew away and decides to go after her. He makes his way to the island, and meets two brothers quarreling about two magic objects: a sword that can teleport anywhere and a hat of invisibility. Hassan tricks the brothers, steals the objects for himself and sticks the sword on the ground to teleport to the island of the djinn. Once there, he puts on the hat and goes looking for his wife in the castle. He finds her inside her room and takes her and their child back to his village.
1019:("The Silversmith"): a father wants his sons to learn a skill. The elder, named Samkari, becomes a tinsmith, while the younger, named Ssaig, becomes a silversmith. With time, their father dies and they squander their fortune. Eventually, both brothers part ways: the elder goes back to his employer and marries his daughter, while Ssaig stays with his mother and opens a silversmithery. His mother warns him against "people from the desert". Eventually, one such person comes to his store with a gift: he says he is a gold dealer and gives Ssaig a piece of yellow wood, for him to use on tin and turn it into gold. After the man leaves, Ssaig asks a neighbour for some tin, melts the metal with the wood, and it becomes gold. Ssaig sells the gold. The next day, the gold dealer comes to his store and they talk about business, and Ssaig invites him home. The youth goes home and tell his mother about the guest, but she reminds him that the man is one of the people his father warned him against. During a meal, the gold dealer drugs Ssaig's sorbet with a potion that makes him unconscious, loads him up on his donkey and rides with the youth through the desert. The youth smells some salts the gold dealer sprays on his nose, comes to and is told they are near the mountain where the gold-producing herb sprouts. The gold dealer explains that they have to lure a "Gjau" ('eagle') with mutton skin so that the bird can carry him up the mountain. Ssaig hides inside the mutton skin and is taken by the eagle to the mountain top, where he gathers branches and throws to the gold dealer. The gold dealer loads enough brances of the trees and abandons Ssaig up the mountain. The youth notices the skeletons about (previous victims of the gold dealer) and decides to look for a wait. He walks through a forest until he reaches a "Gasr" (a tower). He prepares to knock on the door and faints. When he wakes up, he finds himself surrounded by seven beautiful maidens, who tell him they are the daughters of the Alledjenu king. The maidens explain that many young men have died due to the gold dealer's actions, but Ssaig decides to end his threat once and for all. For a year, he lives with the maidens as a brother, and, after a year elapses, the gold dealer is back with another victim. Ssaig is gives a "Saif" ('sword') by the maidens, and rides an eagle down the mountain to kill the gold dealer. The deed done, Ssaig says goodbye to the maidens and flies back to his mother with treasures.
1143:, despite her mother-in-law's warnings, and is admired by the local Khalifa's wife, so much so she is brought to her court. Cunningly, Light-of-Morning asks for her feather dress - which is her mother-in-law's possession -; she puts it on, turns it back to a dove and tells Hasan's mother to ask him to find her in Waqwaq, then flies away. When she reaches the roof of her father's palace in Waqwaq, her sisters, already waiting for her, take her to her father, who order her to be hanged by her hairs on a palm-tree. Back to Hasan, he goes back to Basra and discovers his wife's disappearance. Intent on getting her back, he goes back to his jinn sisters and explains his situation. The jinn sisters advise him to find their eldest brother, ruler of he small birds. Hasan visits him, who summons all birds to see the location of Waqwaq, to no avail. Hasan then visits a middle brother, who rules the large birds and the eagles, and a young brother. The latter summons a mistress of the daughters of the jinns, who can lead Hasan to Waqwaq. The old woman is brought to Hasan's presence, and advises him to wear a woman's veil and join with her in the desert, for the daughters of the jinns will pass before them. It happens thus, but Hasan cannot see Light-of-Morning among them. Later, Hasan finds two men quarreling over a cap of invisibility and a carpet that flies with a stick. He distracts the men and steals the objects, then uses the carpet to fly to Shahzaban's palace. Inside the palace, Hasan wears the cap and steals food for his wife and sons, then releases his family and flies with them to the jinn maidens's younger sorcerer brother. He congratulates Hasan on his success and asks for the cap. However, Shahzaban's army surrounds the sorcerer's castle; Hasan beats the stick on the ground; a black slave appears and Hasan commands him to provide an army to defeat his father-in-law's. Later, the family flies back to the other jinn brothers, where he leaves the carpet and the stick for safekeeping, and reach Basra. At the end of the tale, Hasan takes revenge on the Jew jeweler by abandoning him on top of the same mountain, saving another of his victims, and summons with a ring the elder jinn brother to menace the Khalifa of Basra in leaving Hasan and his family alone, lest the Khalifa incurs the wrath of the three jinn brothers and sisters.
758:): a widow has three sons, but lives in absolute poverty. To help his mother, the eldest son decides to seek his fortune in the world. He arrives at a city and finds work with a magician. Both ride their horses to the foot of a mountain. The magician orders the youth to kill his own horse, open its belly and extract its entrails, and hide inside with some bags. The youth obeys, despite some protests, and the magician, by opening a book, chants a spell to levitate the horse hide up the mountain. Atop the mountain, the youth leaves the horse hide and finds gold, silver, brilliants and precious stones, which he bags and places in the horse hide for the magician to bring over to him. After his work is done, the magician abandons him up the mountain. The youth wanders the mountaintop and finds a root. Pulling up the root, he finds a trapdoor, and a staircase leading downwards. The youth finds a magnificent palace and a giant lying down on a bed. After the youth begs him to stay, the giant explains his state is due to the same magician that left him up the mountain, but the youth can help both of them: the next morning, three doves shall come to bathe in a water tank, a white one, a gray one and a cinnamon-coloured one, and he must get the white dove. The youth obeys the giant's orders: he stays in hiding and tries to capture the white dove after she and her companions come, but manages to pluck two of her feathers. The day after, he captures her. The dove becomes a human maiden. Meanwhile, back to the youth's mother, his youngest brother goes looking for him: he goes to the same city and learns of the magician his brother was employed for. The brother goes with the magician to the same mountain and is levitated in a horse skin to the mountaintop. Instead of treasures, the brother fills the sacks with bones to deceive the magician, and throws a large stone at him, breaking his legs. Inside the mountain palace, the giant feels the curse if lifted, and the palace begins to rise. Back to the widow, she wakes up one morning and sees a palace just opposite her house, her sons also there. The giant becomes a prince, who marries the white dove maiden (back to human shape), while the brothers in the palace marry the other two dove maidens (also back to human shape).
971:("Hassan of Bassra"). In this tale, Hassan's father is a merchant, and he is an only son. After his father dies, Hassan opens up a shop, and is visited by the stranger who shows him the gold-making powder. Hassan invites the man to his house, but he drugs Hassan's coffee and takes him to the Cloud Mountain. The man tells his name is Ibrahim, the Magician, and he needs the boy for a job. Ibrahim kills a camel, hides Hassan inside and the vultures take him up the mountain. On the mountain top, there is a hut that Hassan enters and finds a tablet to give to Ibrahim. After the job is done, Ibrahim abandons Hassan up the mountain. Hassan escapes and finds a castle with jinn princess, who take them in. Some time later, the jinn princesses must return to their father's kingdom, and give Hassan a set of keys to the castle, forbidding him from opening a certain door. After they depart, the youth opens every door, including the forbidden one, and finds a beautiful garden with a water basin. Suddenly, ten pigeons come and alight near the basin, take off their feathers and become women, stay for a bit, then fly back. Hasan tells the jinn princesses of the incident and how he fell in love with the youngest of the pigeon maidens; the jinn princesses advise him to steal the feather cloak of the one he fancies the best in order to marry her. He follows their advice and gets the maiden's feather cloak, making her his wife. After some time, the magician Ibrahim appears again at the mountain with another victim; Hassan slays the magician, saving the newest apprentice from sharing the same fate as he once did, and gets Ibrahim's magic copper drum. Later, since he misses his mother, he goes back to Basra with his wife, Nur Ennisä, and introduces her to his mother. Hassan leaves for some time, and Nur Ennisä wants to go to the local bath house. Once she is there, Subida, the caliph's wife, admires her beauty and brings her to her court. The pigeon maiden is brought before her and asks her mother-in-law for her feather cloak; as soon as she puts it on, she turns back into a pigeon, asks her mother-in-law to tell Hassan to seek her and their children in Wakwak, and vanishes.
1163:. In this tale, a youth named Aaron lives with his poor family. One day, a stranger pays them a visit and offers to take Aaron as his apprentice. Aaron and the stranger ride their camels to the base of a high mountain, on whose top lies a cave guarding a great treasure. Aaron rides the camel up the mountain slopes and enters the cave; inside, a vast treasure. The youth loads the camel with sacks of gems and gold and commands it down the mountain, then asks the stranger to send the animal up. The stranger denies his request and abandons him up the mountain. Back to Aaron, he begins to feel hungry and tries to find a way to escape the mountaintop: on one side, the slopes, on the other, the sea. He chooses to dive in the sea and swims for three days until he reaches a beach. Wandering a bit, he finds a large house, where a young woman welcomes him and gives him food. The young woman and her sisters take him in as their adopted brother and they live together. Some time later, the sisters are invited by her uncle for a wedding, and give Aaron a set of keys for him to explore house, except for one particular door. Aaron obeys at first, but one day decides to open the forbidden door, despite their warnings: he finds a beach on shore next to the sea, where three storks are bathing. Suddenly, the storks take off their feathers and become beautiful maidens, the third and youngest the most beautiful of all, who Aaron falls in love with. The storks fly away and the youth grows ill with longing. When his adoptive sisters return, they learn he opened the forbidden door and tell him the stork maidens are princesses from another kingdom that come once a month to bathe in the sea and fly back there. The next time the birds come, Aaron hides in a crack and takes the feathers from the third princess. He tricks her into going through the door, and she loses her magic powers to turn into a stork. Aaron and the now human stork princess marry, and they make a long journey back to his parents, then journey to the princess's kingdom.
730:("The Swan Girl"), an old woman has a son that wishes to find work in the world. He first works as a shepherd. One day, he sights a white bird in the cornfields and follows it to the forest. He loses his way there, but finds a castle with an old man inside. The old man agrees to offer him shelter and work for a year. One day, the old man has to leave, but gives the youth a set of keys and warns him not to open the last door. The youth obeys the order for some time, but he eventually opens the last door: inside, three maidens bathing in the water. When the girls notice the youth, they turn into swans and fly away. After his master returns, he confesses he opened the door, and now has to work for him for another year. The next year, the man leads the youth to the forbidden room; inside, the same three girls that fly as swans. The man asks the youth which of them he liked best, and he answers: "the youngest". The man instructs him to return to that room that night, get a box from under the bed and bring it to him. The man then explains that the youth is to take the box to his house, without looking back, and the girl will be his. The youth obeys his advice; when he returns home, he turns around and sees a lovely maiden dressed in white. He marries the girl and they live happily together. However, one day, the girl begins to feel sad, and tells her husband she wants her swan garments back. Fearing his wife might fly away, he locks the windows and doors. The girl wears back her garments, turns back into a swan and flies through the chimney. Desperate, the youth goes back to the man in the castle, and is told she is now on a distant island, kept by a fierce dragon. Heeding the words, the youth makes a long seven-year journey, until he meets three giants competing over magical objects. The youth steals a wishing cap, a cloak of invisibility and a sword of invincibility. He teleports to the dragon's island and kills it. He goes to the castle, tosses the box in the sea and finds his wife.
867:'s translation) approaches him with a business proposition. The youth and the man arrive at the foot of a mountain. The man strikes the ground with his cane and a winged horse appears to them. The man explains that atop of the mountain there are treasures in jewels and gold, and bids the youth flies up there with the horse, loads the horse with sacks of gold, then return. The youth makes three trips to the mountain top, but the third time the man strikes the ground and summons the horse to his side, leaving the youth stranded on the mountaintop. He wanders around the top of the mountain and meets an old woman, who tells him the man from the Orient always does that every years, and bids him come with her. Suspicious at first, the youth comes with her. The old woman directs him to a fountain, and tells him about twelve veiled maidens that come to bathe there. The youth hides, and waits for the moment: twelve doves come to the fountain, drink a bit of water and become maidens. The youth steals the veil and locks it in a box the old woman gave her. Despite her pleas, the youth does not returns the veil, and goes back home in directions given by the old woman. The youth gives the veil for his mother to hide, and marries the maiden. After some incessant pleading, the youth's mother gives back the veil to the maiden, who becomes a dove and flies away. The youth learns his wife flew away and goes looking for the man from the Orient to go through the same process as before, in order to find the old woman atop the mountain. The youth repeats his steps and finds the old woman, who scolds him and tells him to steal the veil again. His wife flies in again to the fountain, the youth steals her veil and lets the old woman burn it. The youth takes his wife home with him and inquires about her origins: she is the daughter of the King of Spain. The youth pays a visit to the King of Spain and shows him his long-lost daughter. Overjoyed, the king of Spain marries his daughter to the youth.
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journey to the golden mountain. When they arrive, the man kills the youth's horse, then bids him enter its insides and wait until a large raven flies in and carries the dead horse up the mountain. Atop the mountain, Rav-Zholdyamo exits the horse skin and fetches some golden stones; he pockets them in a bag and lowers them to the old man through a rope. After the old man takes the bag, he burns the rope and strands the youth upon the mountain. Some time later, Rav-Zholdyamo sees a kite menacing three ducks, and throws a rock at the larger bird to scare him away. The ducks thank him and agree to take him to their home at the foot of a mountain. The ducks take off their feather skins, become humans and take Rav-Zholdyamo as their guest. The youth begins to fall in love with the youngest duck maiden, and eventually hides her clothing to convince her to marry him. The third duck maiden agrees to be his wife, and they return to Rav-Zholdyamo's mother's hut. The youth gives the duck featherskin for his mother to hide, and makes her promise not to return it to his wife. One day, the maiden asks her husband for a green ring she left at her sisters' hut. He agrees to take his wife's ring, and, while he is away, the duck maiden tells his mother to give her the feather skin. She puts it on, turns into a bird and flies away. Rav-Zholdyamo comes back with the ring and is told by his mother his wife flew away. Rav-Zholdyamo begins a quest by going upstream: he meets three brothers, each a large old man, the first by a willow tree, the second by an elm tree, and the third by an oak tree. The Third brother tells the youth his gray duck wife is being held hostage by the large raven atop the Golden
Mountain, and gives him a flying carpet and a cap of invisibility. Rav-Zholdyamo flies to the top of the Golden Mountain, distracts the raven, and takes his wife on the flying carpet back to his village.
809:. In this tale, a king builds a glass chamber to keep his son away from the world. One day, the prince inquires about a bone, and uses it to crack open a glass pane. The prince and his tutors take a walk through the world. He joins the nobles in hunting hares, and one day decides to walk alone. He meets a Jew, who convinces him to play a game: first, to buy a buffalo's skin, hide inside it and let the ravens take him up to the hill. The prince is taken to the hill and the Jew shouts at him to throw two stones (which are in fact diamonds). The Jew abandons the prince on the mountain and departs. Trapped there, he finds a trapdoor and pulls it open. He climbs down a staircase and arrives at another realm, with a palace in the distance. Inside the palace, an old man is trapped. He releases the old man who gives him the keys to the apartments. Behind a closed door, three fairies come to bathe in "a hollow place filled with water". The old man advises the prince to steal one of their garments, for their strength lie in the clothes. The prince steals the youngest's garments and wants to make her his wife. The old man tells him to go to the stables and summon a winged steed to carry him back to his kingdom. On the road, the prince meets the fairy's brothers, one at a time, who are disguised as
995:, a boy is born to a couple, but he is only named when he grows up: Haseebu Kareem ed deen. Some time later, he meets the King of Snakes in a gathering of people. One of the assembled people tell his story: he is Jan Shah, son of sultan Taighamus. Jan Shah recalls how he and some slaves followed a gazelle during a hunt. They insisted on chasing the gazelle across the sea and jumped on a boat to another island. On the island, the monkeys made him their king, but they found a house with an inscription saying that a way lied to the north, past plains filled with animals. Jan Shah and his slaves made their way through the plains, although his slaves died. Arriving at a city, Jan Shah found work with a man: he was to buy a camel's skin, hide in it, let the birds carry up a mountain and throw the man precious stones. After the work was done, Jan Shah was left on the mountain, but wandered off and met a man in a house. The man welcomed him and gave him the keys to house, forbidding him from opening a certain chamber. Jan Shah disobeyed and opened it; inside, a garden, and three birds had come, changed into maidens to bathe in a nearby stream, and flown away. Jan Shah told the old man the event, and he replied that they were daughters of a sultan of the
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beautiful palace in a garden. Suddenly, three doves alight near a pool in the garden, take off their feather robes and play in the water; later, they fly back when they came. His three adoptive sisters arrive, and Hasan tells them he fell in love with the youngest dove maiden. The jinn sisters say the dove maiden, named Light-of-Morning (Nur-es-Sabah), is the youngest daughter of
Shahzaban, a powerful king of Waqwaq. After 40 days, the dove maidens return; Hasan steals her feather cloak, stranding her in the garden while her sister fly away. Light-of-Morning marries Hasan and gives birth to two sons. In time, Hasan begins to miss his hometown (Basra), and is given three hairs to summon a magic mare to rush back to his mother. It happens thus. After living in Basra, Hasan leaves his wife with his mother, and goes back to his jinn sisters. While he is away, Light-of-Morning goes to the local
999:, the youngest called Seyedati Shems. The old man suggested Jan Shah to steal her clothes. He followed his instructions, stole Seyedati Shems's garment and took with her to his father's land, where they married. Later, Jan Shah buried the garments under the floor, but one day his wife found it, put it on and flew to her father's realm. Before she departed, Seyedati had told a slave to inform Jan Shah of her flight, and, if he wanted her back, he would have to follow after her. Jan Shah took a journey there and found his wife's kingdom, where he introduced himself as her husband. Jan Shah regained his wife and both went back to his father with a genii retinue. One day, after Seyedati Shems left a bath in the river, she died, and Jan Shah dug a grave for her and another for him, to join her in death when his time had come.
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brother-in-law, may know the answer. Malek-Ahmad visits his brothers-in-law and asks them about the location of Mount Qaf. The eagle brother-in-law, in his castle, reads a spell from the Book of prophet
Suleyman and summons all birds. A little bird tells the prince its eagle grandmother can take him there. After 40 days feeding the eagle and a journey to Mount Qaf, Malek-Ahmad arrives and drips a magical liquid on his eyes to become invisible. He finds his two sons getting water on the fountain and follows them to their house. He discovers his peri-wife and takes off the invisibility spell. His peri-wife says her brother is Yusuf, the very same person he rescued in the prison. Yusuf embraces Malek-Ahmad, gives him gifts and blesses his marriage to his sister. In his Catalogue of Persian Folktales, German scholar
813:. The prince kills his brothers-in-law and returns to his father's castle. The king throws a large series of festivities with music and dance. The prince gives his bride's garments to his mother, but the fairy, cunningly, asks her mother-in-law to return the garments to her, so she can dance better. The fairy flies away back to her kingdom. The prince goes after with the winged steed and reaches his bride's kingdom, where he learns her father is at war with another kingdom. The prince uses magical items and defeats the enemy army. Now victorious, the prince wears a disguise and goes to his father-in-law's court to be rewarded. The king offers him his youngest daughter for wife, and she recognizes her husband.
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hiring people to work for him for 40 days, for a fine pay. Malek-Ahmad tells the old man he will return in 40 days, and goes to work for a Jew. The Jew and Malek-Ahmad ride to the foot of a mountain. The Jew orders the boy to kill the camel, remove its entrails, and hide inside, so that some giant birds carry him up the mountain. On the mountaintop, Malek-Ahmad throws some gems off to the Jew, who gathers them and abandons the boy there. Malek-Ahmad wanders off through the mountaintop and sees a palace in the distance. He enters and finds a div-mother, who warns him that her sons are div that may eat him, but they warm up to him and treat him like their brother. He takes shelter with a
1044:, both scholars indexed a similar tale type under TTV 198, "Der Diamantenberg" ("The Diamond Mountain"), with nine variants registered. In the Turkish tale type, a poor man finds work with a merchant and they go to a mountain to fetch diamonds; an eagle carries the man up the mountain, he tosses the gems to his companion, and is left stranded there; he reaches another land where he marries a woman, loses her, and goes after her. In four of the variants, the hero's wife is a swan maiden (who is the daughter of the Padishah of the Birds in two of them), who finds her garments and flees back home.
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which the eagles bring up the mountain, drops the gems to the merchant, and is left there to die. In
Azerbaijani type 400, "Ər itmiş arvadını axtrır" ("Man searches for his lost wife"), as an alternate opening to the type, the hero steals the peri's clothes during her bathtime and makes her his wife; later, she regains her clothes and flies back to her homeland; the hero dons iron shoes and an iron staff and begins to look for her; he meets three divs (giants) on the road and steals their magic objects, which help him get closer to his wife's location.
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248:(999 previous victims), and promises to spare him if the youth worships the fire. Hassan refuses to do so, and is held as a hostage in the ship for three months, until a heavy storm gathers in the ocean and the ship's captain begins to throw the magician Behram's slaves in the sea. Behram releases Hassan from his bonds and the storm subsides. Behram then reveals their destination: the Mountain of Cloud, where they can obtain the elixir that allows the transmutation of metal.
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edge of the mountain and plunges into the sea. Washing ashore, he prays to Allah he is alive and walks round the mountain back to the road they previously took. He reaches a large palace he passed by before, which belongs to seven genii daughters, who decide to adopt him as their brother. After living one year with them, Mazin notices that Bahram has brought another student/victim with him, and decapitates the magician with a sabre to end his menace once and for all.
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again, he summons the spirits and they answer that only a sage who lives in a cellar nearby can help him cross the sea. By using the ball again, Mazin finds the sage. The sage and Mazin climb up a mountain until they arrive at a fortress; deep within, a brazen statue near a basin. The sage kindles a fire and utters an incantation in front of the statue. Thunder and clouds rage and the basin boils; the ocean is drained, creating a passageway.
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The old lady goes to the palace, since she is the princesses' nurse, and confers with Mazin's eldest sister-in-law about the fate of his wife. The queen, their leader, comments that her sister is trapped in the dungeons with her sons, since he married a man of another race. The old lady goes to the dungeon and enters Mazin's wife's cell. She comforts the maiden by saying her husband is there, and will bring release for her and her children.
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bezels) were the most precious to him, but a bird came and snatched the seventh jewel, the smallest and most lustrous. Worried that his dream meant something, he sent for his dream interpreters, who foretold that his seventh daughter, Manar, would be taken from him. After hearing his words, Manar assures him that no man is capable of arriving at Waq Waq to take her away from him, so perilous is the journey there.
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orders Hassan's mother to bring the feather garment, but she refuses to. Zobeide dispatches Masrur, the eunuch, to fetch the feather garment in their house and bring her. He takes the garment and returns it to Hassan's wife; she puts it on and begins to fly about the room. As her parting words, she tells her mother-in-law Hassan should find her and their children in the
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their camels through the landscape for days, until they reach a lofty mountain named
Mountain of the Clouds. Bahram explains that Mazin is to be taken by the large bird to its top and fetch him the black dust spread around. Bahram kills one of the camels, flays its skin and bids Mazin enter it, so he can be transported by the Roc to the top of the mountain.
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and Malek-Ahmad"), a prince named Malek-Ahmad marries his sisters to three animals (a lion, a wolf and an eagle), and leaves home. He helps an old man carry bundles of firewood to his house. For his kind deed, the old man decides to take him in as another son. One day, Malek-Ahmad hears that a man is
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He summons the spirits of the drums (which are part of the genii race) and asks them the distance to Wauk-al-Wauk; three years' journey, they answer. Mazin casts the ball and follows it through a land of dragons, until he sights the fiery red mountains of the islands and, before him, a vast sea. Once
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The couple pass by King Hassun, the lord of the Land of
Camphor and the castle of crystal. After hearing the man's tale, King Hassun congratulates him for journeying to Waq Waq Island and surviving. The couple then go to Abu al-Ruwaysh and Abu al-Kaddus. Both sorcerers congratulate Hassan on his safe
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Manar arrives at the queen's court and finds her two sons, who tell her they saw their human father. Queen Nûr then mocks Manar for her illicit marriage to a human, and commands her guards seize her sister, throw her in the dungeon and whip her. Shawahi, their nursemaid, begs the queen to forgive her
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Mazin enters the palace with the cap of invisibility and wanders the corridors to the dungeon, where he finds his wife's cell. Mazin releases his wife from her confinement, and they decide to escape that same night. Learning of their escape, the queen goes after the couple with her army. Mazin beats
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Sultana orders Mazin's mother to bring her daughter-in-law's robe. Mazin's mother rushes home to fulfill the order, and brings it to the maiden. She puts on the robe and begins to soar in the air. She tells her mother-in-law to inform Mazin to seek her in the islands of Wauk-al-Wauk, and departs
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After he departs, Mazin's wife decides to go to the public bath. Once there, the slaves of
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The seven genii sister return the next day and Mazin tells them about the seven maidens, having falling in love with one of them. One of the genii princesses informs Mazin that the seven green-robed maidens belong to an all-female race of genii (since they give up their male children to neighbouring
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brings the dead camel's skin to the top of the mountain. Mazin exits it and begins to gather the black powder into a bag, then throws it down the mountain to Bahram. The magician celebrates his quest is over and turns around to return to his ship, abandoning Mazin to his fate. The youth walks to the
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The Queen's orders are carried out, and, before her, Hassan recognizes his sons, Nasir and Mansur. Meanwhile, Manar al-Suna is ordered to present herself before her sister's court, and her father tells her about a dream he had: he was in a garden with a great hoard of treasures, and seven jewels (or
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After plunging into the sea, Hassan swims the waves and reaches the shores of a kingdom he passed by with Behram. He finds a palace and enters it; inside, two maidens playing chess sight Hassan, whom they recognize as Behram's companion, and welcome him as their brother. The maidens explain they are
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Back to Hassan and the magician, who the narrative calls Behram, the youth wakes up on the boat and asks the magician's plans, since the latter made a vow of "bread and salt" for sacred hospitality. In response, the
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comes to his store with a proposition to have Hassan work for him and the youth will learn the ways of transmuting copper into gold. Despite his mother's suspicions, Hassan agrees to trust the man and, after the Persian transmutes copper in front of Hassan with a special powder, invites him home for
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titled "Рав-Жольдямо" ("Rav-Zholdyamo"), the youth Rav-Zholdyamo lives with his poor widow mother, until one day an old man pays them a visit and offers the boy a proposition: the youth is to accompany him to a mountain and climb its golden peak. Rav-Zholdyamo rides a lame horse and joins the man's
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and translated into Russian as "Джаган-шах" ("Djagan-Shah"), in China, a padishah named Tehmuz Shah has a son named Djagan Shah. One day, Djagan-Shah sails with seven friends through the oceans, when a storm falls on the sea and makes their ship change direction to an apparently deserted island. On
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Mazin crosses through the dried up ocean until he reaches Wauk-al-Wauk at last, and meets a "masculine-looking" old woman who he confides in. The old woman takes him in and tells that his wife has been subject to terrible mistreatment since her return, but will report back to him once he finds her.
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Mazin and the genii princess welcome the (former) flying maiden to the palace, where Mazin courts her. Now, missing him, the genii princesses allow Mazin to return home to his mother, furnishing him with provisions. Mazin goes back home and introduces his wife to his mother, and the family move out
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as tale type ATU 936*, "The Golden Mountain": the hero is hired by a rich man and taken to a golden mountain, where he is to be carried up the mountain by the birds and fetch gold for the rich man. The hero's employer abandons him up the mountain and leaves with the gold; the hero then miraculously
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Hassan dons the cap again and visits his wife's cell, where she is with her two sons. He takes off the cap and embraces his wife and children, but hides himself again when queen Nûr comes to belittle Manar. After she leaves, Hassan releases Manar, and the couple take their children to a door behind
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Hassan then meets the leader of the amazonian guard, Shawahi Umm Al-Dawahi, who is the queen's nursemaid. Hassan joins Shawahi's army and they traverse the large territories of Waq Waq (the Land of the Birds, the Land of the Wild Beasts and the Land of the Djinns), until they reach the mountains of
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Hassan falls in love with the bird maiden and tries to find her the next day, to no avail. After the jinn princesses return, Hassan tells the situation to the youngest jinn princess, who chastises him for opening the forbidden door. Hassan leads the jinn princess to the garden, and she explains the
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and gives it to Hassan, who eats it and passes out. The Persian ties Hassan's limbs and carries him in a chest to the port, where he takes a ship to depart from Bassora. Meanwhile, Hassan's mother notices that neither her son, nor the magician are in the house, least of all in the village. Thinking
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Meanwhile, Hassan, still in Waq Waq, finds two brothers quarreling about their inheritance: a magic cap of invisibility and a cane that summons members of the seven tribes of jinns. The human tricks the quarreling brothers, steals the objects, and goes to pay Shawahi another visit, with the cap of
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Hassan buys a large house for them in Baghdad, where he lives with the jinn princess and their two sons, Nasir and Mansur. Three years later, he decides to journey back to his adoptive sisters since he is missing them, and warns his mother to not let his wife leave the house, nor to return her the
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scholarship recognizes, in the Azerbaijani Folktale Corpus, a similar combination of types 936 and 400. In the Azerbaijani type 936, "Qızıl dağ" ("Golden Mountain"), the hero joins with a merchant and both travel to the golden mountain on a forty days journey; the hero enters the animal's carcass
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Now out in the open sea, Bahram rouses Mazin awake and reveals his true, evil intent. Mazin prays to Heaven for help; a storm appears on the horizon to threaten the ship, until Bahram makes a vow to let the youth live. After three months, the ship arrives on an island shore. Bahram and Mazin ride
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After grieving for a month, Hassan goes back to his seven adoptive sisters in search of clues. The princesses consult with a paternal uncle, Sheik Abdul-Rodus, who agrees to help the human, despite dismissing his plight as futile. The Sheik and Hassan then ride elephants to a dark blue, where the
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The other jinn princesses return from the hunt and learn of the presence of the daughter of their sovereign. They visit her and bow before her, then explain Hassan has no ill intent, save to make her his wife, since her feather garment has been burnt, and she cannot return to her father's palace.
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The next day, the bird maidens fly back to bathe in the pavilion; Hassan steals the feather garment of the youngest of them. While the maidens fly back, the jinn princess realizes her garments were stolen and shrieks in terror; Hassan seizes the princess by the hair and drags her to a room on the
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The seven sisters adopt Hassan as their brother, and, a year later, help the youth in getting his revenge on the magician Behram, when the latter brings his new apprentice/slave. After a while, a cloud of dust is approaching their palace, and the princesses explain it is a troop of their father's
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Mazin rides three months until he reaches a "venerable-looking man", Abd al Kuddoos. He greets the youth and, after learning of the reasons of his journey, tries to dissuade him from going further. After much insistence on Mazin'a part, Abd al Kuddoos summons a "genius" and commands him to carry
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A great battle ensues: Hassan's djinn army defeats the armies of Waq Waq, take queen Nûr prisoner and bring her before Hassan and his wife. Shawahi declares she must be punished, but Manar begs him to forgive her sister. Manar embraces her sister Nûr, and they reconcile. The prisoners of war are
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Hassan's mother and his wife go to the court wearing veils, and Zobeide orders the woman to take off the veil. The caliph's wife is dazzled by the djinni's beauty, and inquires her about her talents. Hassan's wife says she can dance as long as she wears her feather robe. On hearing this, Zobeide
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Mazin and his family wander back to the Abd al Sulleeb, but are attacked by a cadre of robbers. The youth beats the drums and commands his genii army to scare the robbers off. Mazin and his family visit his helpers Abd al Sulleeb and Abd al Kuddoos, then the genii sisters, and finally arrive at
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In the Land of Kafoor, Mazin walks for ten days, until he finds three brothers quarreling about their father's inheritance: a cap, a drum, and a wooden ball. Mazin doubts about their effectiveness at first, but the three brothers explains that, despite their simple appearance, the cap is one of
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Mazin to Abd al Sulleeb. With Abd al Sulleeb, Mazin convinces him to help. Abd al Sulleeb summons a cadre of ten genii who are ordered to carry Mazin to Wauk-al-Wauk. The ten genii obey the command, but carry him to the Land of Kafoor, since going further means entering other tribes' territory.
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Mazin returns from his journey and learns from his mother that his wife has departed with their children, fainting at the sad news. After composing himself, he decides to seek his wife at the island, despite them being a 150 years' distance from Baghdad. Mazin begins his journey by visiting his
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Some time later, the genii princesses are visited by their father's messengers, who summon them to the court. Before they leave for a month, they give Mazin a set of keys, and orders not to open a certain door. After they leave, curiosity takes the better of him and he opens the forbidden door.
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Mazin lives with his widowed mother and works as a dyer in Khorassan. One day, a foreigner named Bahram comes to his shop and declares his intentions to adopt the youth as his son, and promises to show him the secret of transmuting metal into gold. The next day, Bahram fulfills his promise and,
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After the princesses depart to their father's court, Hassan tries to amuse himself, and eventually opens the forbidden door: inside, a beautiful and lush garden with a pavilion nearby. Suddenly, ten birds come near the pavilion, become ten maidens of exceptional beauty and bathe and play in the
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live. The girls take him in as their human brother. After three years, they say they will pay a visit to their father and three jinn brothers, and give Hasan a set of keys, forbidding him to open a certain door. After they leave, Hasan opens every door, including the 40th one, where he finds a
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intend to kill him and his sons and kidnap her, so she convinces him to return her belongings. The peri-wife puts on the garments, begs her husband to come find her on Mount Qaf and flies away with her children. The prince asks the Div-family about Mount Qaf, and they say their uncle, the wolf
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palace, and locks her in. The great princess of the jinni is visited by Hassan's foster sisters and demands an explanation. The maidens assuage her fears and tell her Hassan's story. Hassan then pays a visit to his beloved and expresses his affection to her, promising to marry her and buy in
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tribes) who live in a distant and inaccessible kingdom. For him to have the maiden, he needs to steal her robe. The next day, Mazin and one of the genii sisters wait for the maidens to fly to their garden, steal the maiden's robe, forcing her to stay at the palace while the other fly away.
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Now, on the outskirts of the city, Hassan beats the cane on the earth to summons the seven djinns, and asks them to carry them over to Baghdad. The djinns, however, cannot take humans with them, but furnishes the family with horses powerful enough to take them back home before vanishing.
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pavilion and the pool belong to a princess of the jinn, daughter of the king of the kings of their race; they fly through the air by the use of their feather garments. Thus, the jinn princess advises, if Hassan wishes to have her, he should steal the feather garment and not return it.
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Hassan returns to Baghdad and asks his mother about his family. With tears in her eyes, the woman tells Hassan his wife has regained the feather garment and flew away to Wak-Wak Islands with their children. Hassan falls into a state of despair for the disappearance of his family.
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After another three months, Behram and Hassan reach their destination, and ride horses through a desert for 14 days until they reach the Mountain, where they are to find the herb that produces the elixir. Behram's plan is for Hassan to enter a horse's hide and wait for the birds
771:("The Golden Mountain"). In this regard, according to Greek researcher Marilena Papachristophorou, the combination of both types (ATU 936* and ATU 400, "The Man on a Quest for the Lost Wife") totalled 32 out of 80 tales registered in the Greek Folktale Corpus. In the same vein,
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joins the retinue, and assures he will accompany them out of the islands, since he is "Moslem" just like Hassan. Then, after 31 days, a large cloud of dust walls the quintet, and Shawahi bids Hassan summon the djinn army, for the cloud dust is, in fact, Nûr al-Hadâ's armies.
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Beyond the door, a magnificent garden with a basin in its center. One afternoon, Mazin rests in the garden and sees the arrival, through the air, of seven maidens wearing "light green silk" robes. They take off their robes to play in the basin, wear them back and fly away.
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Abu'l Rish takes Hassan with him and introduces him to a room with 4 sheiks. The group discuss the journey Hassan intends to take, and Abu'l Rish summons a jinn to take the human to the Land of Camphor, with a letter explaining the situation to its monarch.
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invisibility, the small copper drum can summon the princes of the genii and their armies, and the wooden ball allows one to cross larger distances in no time, by simply following it. Mazin deceives the brothers and steals the objects for himself.
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Waq Waq. Shawahi brings Hassan before their queen, Nûr al-Hudâ, whom Hassan mistakes for his wife. Learning of her younger sister's marriage to a human, Nûr al-Hudâ orders Shawahi to go to Manar al-Sana (Hassan's wife) and bring her two children.
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Baghdad, to see Mazin's mother. After crying so much she became blind, Mazin's mother sees her son and her vision is restored. Later, Mazin goes to the court of Caliph Haroun as Raschid and Sultana Zobaida, and retells his entire adventure.
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to Baghdad. Three years later, after Mazin's wife gave birth to two sons, Mazin decides to pay a visit to his genii sisters, and leaves his wife under his mother's care, giving her a key to a room where he hid the maiden's flying robe.
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convinced of the man's intentions, Mazin agrees to go with him and invites him home while his mother is away. Back home, Bahram drugs Mazin and takes him to his ship, while Mazin's mother cries over her lost son, thinking him dead.
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recognized an alternate opening to swan maiden tales: the hero receives a key and, against his master's wishes, opens a forbidden chamber, where the bird maidens are bathing. This motif may be known as "The Forbidden Chamber", in
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journey, and ask him to safekeep the summoning cane and the cap of invisibility. After pondering a bit, Hassan agrees to give them the items for safekeeping, but still expresses his fears his father-in-law may go after them.
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Hassan and the djinni princess marry. One night, the youth has a dream about his mother, and decides to return to Bassora with his wife. After he meets his mother, he suggests they move out to Baghdad to live under the
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Lastly, the family pays a visit to Hassan's adoptive djinn sisters and spends some time there, and finally returns to Baghdad, where Hassan's mother welcomes her son, her daughter-in-law and her grandsons back home.
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An Egyptian man settled in the city of Bassora. When he dies, his properties are divided equally between his two sons, the younger named Hassan, who becomes a goldsmith and opens up a store. One day, a
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genii, come to summon them to a festivity. They receive the invitation, and give Hassan a set of keys for the human to use around the palace, with a caveat: he is forbidden to open a certain door.
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sister, but the woman is also beaten and cast out of the palace. Nûr writes their father a letter revealing the case of Manar's dalliance with a human, and the king agrees with her execution.
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the drum to summon his army to protect his family from the queen, but Mazin's wife begs him to spare her sister's life. Any attempt at attacking each other cease, and they celebrate peace.
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argue that this narrative does not exist as an independent tale type, and usually appears in combination with other tale types, especially ATU 400.
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Budelli, Rosanna (14 November 2019). "Shamanic Reminiscences and Archaic Myths in the Story of the Goldsmith Ḥasan al-Baṣrī (Alf layla wa-layla)".
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spies on dove-maidens coming to bathe in a pool; Sayf falls in love with their queen, Munyat al-Nufus, steals her doveskin and makes her his wife.
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FF Communications: The Types of International Folktales: A Classification and Bibliography, Based on the System of Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson
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FF Communications: The Types of International Folktales: A Classification and Bibliography, Based on the System of Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson
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FF Communications: The Types of International Folktales: A Classification and Bibliography, Based on the System of Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson
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According to Luisa Rubini, the combination of both tale types is "widely spread" in the Mediterranean area. On a related note, according to
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2552:" . Сост. М.-Н. О. Османов, предисл. Д. С. Комиссарова. М., Главная редакция восточной литературы издательства «Наука», 1987. pp. 243-250.
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Schmitt, Christoph (1999). "Mann auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Frau (AaTh 400)" [Man on a Quest for His Lost Wife (ATU 400)].
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escapes through some means, and turns the tables on his former boss, leaving him to die on the same mountain. According to German scholar
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The Persian magician joins Hassan for dinner at the latter's house. During the meal, the magician dowses a piece of sweetmeat with an
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noted that, despite being "separate and separable themes", both stories combined into a "fairly well-fixed form" in Greek variants.
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917:. She also argued that this combination was "stable" and "part of the Armenian tale corpus", with at least 8 variants recorded.
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2709:. Third Printing. Folklore Fellows Communications FFC no. 184. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1973 . pp. 140–151.
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The Types of International Folktales: A Classification and Bibliography, Based on the System of Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson
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The Types of International Folktales: A Classification and Bibliography, Based on the System of Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson
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peoples), although the tale exists independently in the Middle East and in Central Asia. In the same vein, German ethnologue
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noted a similar combination between tale types 936*, "The Golden Mountain", and 400, "Man on a Quest for the Lost Wife", in
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At the bath house, the jinn princess draws the attention of the visitors, and news of her beauty reach the ears of Zobeide (
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The Robber With a Witch's Head: More stories from the great treasury of Sicilian folk and fairy tales collected by L
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1688:. Folklore Fellows Communications FFC no. 184. Third printing. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1973 . p. 186.
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458:, the first part of the tale type (hero's abandonment up the mountain) is "often" an introduction to type ATU 400.
269:(jinn or genies), and that they were locked in this palace by their father, who vowed never to marry any of them.
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beauty and composure. Mazin's wife, cunningly, tells that she will look even more beautiful if she has her robe.
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2567:. Beirut: Orient-Inst. der Deutschen Morgenländischen Ges.; Wiesbaden: Steiner , 1984. pp. 174-175 (entry "7").
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2373:Зейналлы, Ханефи; Багрий, Александр Васильевич. "Азербайджанские тюркские сказки". Academia, 1935. pp. 355-372.
1606:. Folklore Fellows Communications FFC no. 184. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1973 . pp. 128–129.
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3088:
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2408:"Мордовские народные сказки" . Составитель: А. Долгачёв. Мордовское книжное издательство, 1985. pp. 100-107.
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859:, a poor youth lives a miserable life and one day wanders off to the beach, where a "man from the Orient" ("
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Hassan's wife, Manar Al-Sana, and her father, the king of the genii of Wak-Wak Islands (by John D. Batten).
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1513:. Folklore Fellows Communications FFC no. 184. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1973 . p. 331.
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invisibility. During this meeting, Hassan learns his wife Manar has been arrested on her sister's orders.
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The folklore of birds: an enquiry into the origin & distribution of some magico-religious traditions
1929:. Vol. 6. London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row. 1811. pp. 283–343.
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478:) or by the rulers of animals of the land, sea and air (often in the shape of old men and old women).
122:, a compilation of Persian and Arabic folktales. Similar stories are attested in the same collection:
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released; Nûr and Shawahi go back to Waq Waq, while Manar and Hassan make their way towards Baghdad.
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1619:. 1ste druk. Ton Dekker & Jurjen van der Kooi & Theo Meder. Kritak: Sun. 1997. pp. 226-227.
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Hassan embraces his wife, near their sons' crib - the family reunited, at last (by John D. Batten).
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J. Leite de Vasconcellos, ed. (1896). "Contos Populares Portugueses colhidos na tradição oral".
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The birds take flight from the ornate pavilion, leaving their sister behind. Illustration by
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Marzolph, Ulrich (1999). "Hasan von Basra (AaTh 936*)" [Golden Mountain (ATU 936)].
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Hassan, his wife, his children and Shawahi ride the horses away from the city, when a giant
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Van Aladdin tot Zwaan kleef aan. Lexicon van sprookjes: ontstaan, ontwikkeling, variaties
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141:, and to tale type ATU 400, "The Man on a Quest for the Lost Wife", of the international
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Hassan's wife changes back into a bird and takes her sons with her (by John D. Batten).
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Hassan watches as the Persian magician transmutes metal into gold (by John D. Batten).
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Revista Lusitana: Archivo de estudos philologicos e ethnologicos relativos a Portugal
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2489:. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1953. pp. 233-234 (tale type), 421 (table of correspondences).
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collected a Sicilian tale with a similar narrative. In this tale, originally titled
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Types of the Folktale in the Arab World: A Demographically Oriented Tale-Type Index
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On the way there, Abdul-Rodus explains that the Wak-Wak Islands are filled with
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Seth Press; New York: Distributed by the Free Press, 1986. pp. 196-201, 372.
2155:"The Arabian Nights in Greece: A Comparative Survey of Greek Oral Tradition"
1885:
Genetic and Diffusional Themes in the Armenian Sasna Crer: The Sanasar Cycle
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as "The Story of Haseebu Kareem ed Deen and the King of the Snakes", in the
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2397:О сюжетном составе репертуара армянских волшебных и новеллистических сказок
2002:
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Sheik acquires a book, and tells Hassan to ride a horse to another grotto.
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2855:
2841:
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Khadish, Pegah (November 2009). "The Morphology of Persian Fairy Tales".
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1348:. Vol. 7. Translated by Payne, John. London. 1901. pp. 121–264.
992:
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177:
168:
134:
1750:. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Academia Scientiarum Fennica. p. 306.
1702:. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Academia Scientiarum Fennica. p. 306.
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2902:
2747:
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Marzolph, Ulrich (2020). "The Treacherous Treasure Hunter (ATU 936*)".
2006:
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Marzolph, Ulrich (2020). "The Treacherous Treasure Hunter (ATU 936*)".
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1941:
The new Arabian nights. Select tales, not included by Galland or Lane
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The new Arabian nights. Select tales, not included by Galland or Lane
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that show a similar narrative of the hero searching for his wife are
334:
187:
How Hasan captured the Bird-Maiden and the Adventures that came after
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3058:
3052:
3046:
2951:
2938:
2730:
101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition
2663:. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's sons. 1919. pp. 127–185.
1989:
101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition
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408:
2608:
The house between earth and sky: harvesting new American folktales
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2759:. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Folklore Fellows. pp. 247–265.
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286:
240:
163:
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Corrao, Francesca Maria (2004). "The Arabian Nights in Sicily".
1874:. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & co.. 1884. Preface. p. ix.
694:, Mediterranean tales of the swan maiden "have affinities" with
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1318:. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. pp. 236-251.
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511:
indicated the occurrence of this opening episode in tales from
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266:
236:
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1771:
Beza, M. (1925). "The Sacred Marriage in Roumanian Folklore".
1434:. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's sons. 1919. pp. 127–185.
449:
The first part of the tale is classified in the international
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3919:
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2363:(in Azerbaijani). Bakı: Elm və təhsil. pp. 268, 124–125.
2336:
The collected Sicilian folk and fairy tales of Giuseppe Pitrè
1944:. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & co.. 1884. pp. 296–366.
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Hartland, E. Sidney (January 1885). "The Forbidden Chamber".
996:
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remarked that type 936* occurs as the opening to type 400 in
420:
156:
2707:
The types of the folktale: a classification and bibliography
2299:. Translated and edited by Jack Zipes. New York and London:
1686:
The types of the folktale: a classification and bibliography
1604:
The types of the folktale: a classification and bibliography
1554:. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Folklore Fellows. p. 580.
1527:. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Folklore Fellows. p. 579.
1510:
The types of the folktale: a classification and bibliography
3929:
3083:
The Beautiful Palace East of the Sun and North of the Earth
2908:
2594:
Miriam's tambourine: Jewish folktales from around the world
2052:
Gonzenbach, Laura; Consolo, Vincenzo; Rubini, Luisa (eds).
1926:
The Arabian Nights Entertainments: a selection of new tales
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her son is dead, she erects a tombstone and weeps over it.
2240:. London: W. Swan Sonnenschein & Co.. 1884. pp. 88–91.
2091:
Deutsche Volksmärchen aus dem Sachsenlande in Siebenbürgen
2580:. Piscataway, NJ, USA: Gorgias Press, 2007. pp. 421-438.
2093:(in German). Wien: Verlag von Carl Graeser. pp. 4–5.
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The swan-maiden myth is the basis of one of the tales of
467:
2716:. Vol. I. California: ABC-Clio. 2004. pp. 207–210.
2103:
1333:. New York: The Pickwick Publishers, 1927. pp. 754-844.
1237:
El-Zein, Amira (2009). "Love Between Humans and Jinn".
698:, probably following a diffusion by Islam to the West.
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where the swan maiden (or other type of bird) appears.
3165:"Tale types" refer to narratives of the international
133:
The tale is related to the international cycle of the
1615:
Pen, Jikke. "De man zoekt zijn verdwenen vrouw". In:
199:
Hassan of Bassora and the King’s Daughter of the Jinn
2322:
Unter den Olivenbäumen. Süditalienische Volksmärchen
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1–2. München/Berlin: Georg Müller, 1918 . pp. 79–91.
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Hassan and the Swan Woman of the Island of the Djinn
2386:". Vol. 7. Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1941. p. 214.
2333:Pitrè, Giuseppe; Zipes, Jack David; Russo, Joseph.
2237:
Folk-lore of modern Greece: the tales of the people
1447:. Vol. I. California: ABC-Clio. 2004. pp. 207-210.
2732:. Wayne State University Press. pp. 231–236.
1991:. Wayne State University Press. pp. 231–236.
1803:. London: Watts & Co., 1924. pp. 136, 168-169.
985:Kisa Cha Hassibu Karim ad Dini na Sultani wa Nyoka
2421:. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. p. 641.
2152:
825:, classified in the Italian index with the title
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2474:. Bd 4. Jena: Eugen Diederichs, 1923. pp. 73-81.
2212:. Bombay: Somaiya Publications, 1956. pp. 74-85.
2110:(in Portuguese). Vol. IV. pp. 355–358.
3206:
3112:Go I Know Not Whither and Fetch I Know Not What
2399:". In: "Советская этнография". № 6 (1991): 129.
2339:. New York: Routledge, 2009. pp. 238-241, 851.
1241:. Syracuse University Press. pp. 103–120.
1239:Islam, Arabs, and Intelligent World of the Jinn
1071:, "Юсуф — шах пери и Малек-Ахмад" ("Yusuf, the
882:In an Azeri tale published by Azeri folklorist
213:
93:ATU 400, "The Man on a Quest for the Lost Wife"
3881:Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
2674:. Harvard University Press. pp. 117–125.
2459:. London: Bell & Daldy. 1870. pp. 332–361.
1906:. Vol. I. California: ABC-Clio. 2004. p. 210.
1853:. Vol. I. California: ABC-Clio. 2004. p. 210.
1578:. Vol. I. California: ABC-Clio. 2004. p. 210.
1286:. Harvard University Press. pp. 441–444.
3192:
2826:
1667:. University of California Press. pp. 75-76.
1472:. Harvard University Press. pp. 117–25.
1345:The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night
842:About Joseph, who set out to seek his Fortune
259:
3826:The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade
2755:Uther, Hans-Jörg; Fellows, Folklore (2004).
2754:
1629:Liungman, Waldemar (1961). "Zaubermärchen".
1548:Uther, Hans-Jörg; Fellows, Folklore (2004).
1547:
1523:Uther, Hans-Jörg; Fellows, Folklore (2004).
1522:
3235:The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
1889:Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies
1054:Prince Yousef of the Fairies and King Ahmad
838:Vom Joseph, der auszog sein Glück zu suchen
3199:
3185:
2833:
2819:
2582:https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463211011-069
2498:Eberhard, Wolfram; Boratav, Pertev Nailî.
2483:Eberhard, Wolfram; Boratav, Pertev Nailî.
2356:
1358:: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
554:A similar tale is attested in the romance
45:
2628:. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1986.
2504:. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1953. pp. 233, 234.
2360:Azərbaycan nağıllarının süjet göstəricisi
2172:
1728:. University of California Press. p. 76.
821:The combination of types also appears in
539:and Richard van Leewen, other tales from
2727:
2324:. Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1880. pp. 106-111.
2199:. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1953. p. 104.
2088:
2079:. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959. p. 56.
1986:
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799:Von dem Prinzen und der Schwanenjungfrau
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3263:Abu al-Husn and His Slave-Girl Tawaddud
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2712:Marzolph, Ulrich; van Leewen, Richard.
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2019:
1900:Marzolph, Ulrich; van Leewen, Richard.
1847:Marzolph, Ulrich; van Leewen, Richard.
1574:Marzolph, Ulrich; van Leewen, Richard.
1443:Marzolph, Ulrich; van Leewen, Richard.
1236:
1191:reworked the tale as his fantasy novel
1155:published a Jewish tale collected from
782:translated a Greek tale with the title
14:
3991:One Thousand and One Nights characters
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3873:The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor
3095:The Heavenly Maiden and the Woodcutter
3077:The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apples
3012:The Prince Who Wanted to See the World
2666:
2614:. pp. 90–92 (text), 139 (source).
2564:Typologie des persischen Volksmärchens
2384:Sovetskiĭ fol'klor, stat'i i materialy
2284:. Leipzig: Engelmann, 1870. pp. 27-38.
2249:
1464:
1282:Warner, Marina (2011). "The Stories".
1281:
951:that shows the same type combination.
3180:
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137:, a creature that alternates between
3298:The Sisters Envious of Their Cadette
3243:Le livre des mille nuits et une nuit
2444:. Leipzig; Hinrich: 1893. pp. 13-39.
2223:Griechische und Albanesische Märchen
2153:Papachristophorou, Marilena (2004).
1770:
1146:
523:
296:
153:The tale is sometimes translated as
3819:Recollections of the Arabian Nights
2126:. London E. Stock. 1882. pp. 33–37.
1883:Anderson, Earl R. with Mark Host. "
1036:("Turkish Folktale Catalogue"), by
24:
2994:The Sea Tsar and Vasilisa the Wise
2775:
2670:(2011). "Story 5 Hasan of Basra".
2651:New Arabian nights' entertainments
2058:. Donzelli Editore, 1999. p. 485.
1416:New Arabian nights' entertainments
1402:New Arabian nights' entertainments
1388:New Arabian nights' entertainments
1374:New Arabian nights' entertainments
1270:New Arabian nights' entertainments
1225:, the story of Hassan of Bassorah.
116:is a folktale associated with the
27:Fairy tale from the Arabian Nights
25:
4047:
1330:The Arabian Nights Entertainments
920:
4006:Female characters in fairy tales
1219:. London: Beaumont. p. 37.
636:
265:princesses from the race of the
3508:The Adventures of Prince Achmed
3041:Dong Yong and the Seventh Fairy
3035:The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl
2840:
2714:The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia
2705:Aarne, Antti; Thompson, Stith.
2635:
2618:
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2441:Tunisische Märchen und Gedichte
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1903:The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia
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1850:The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia
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1684:Aarne, Antti; Thompson, Stith.
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1445:The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia
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1062:Mahomed-Nuri Osmanovich Osmanov
847:In a South Italian tale titled
191:The One Thousand and One Nights
148:
90:ATU 936*, "The Golden Mountain"
4001:Male characters in fairy tales
3273:Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
2471:Atlantis: Märchen aus Kordofan
2195:Dawkins, Richard McGillivray.
2120:Consiglieri Pedroso, Zophimo.
1827:10.1080/17442524.1885.10602782
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902:In a 1991 article, researcher
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3996:Male characters in literature
3669:Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights
2606:Sobol, Joseph Daniel (2005).
2501:Typen türkischer Volksmärchen
2486:Typen türkischer Volksmärchen
1631:Die Schwedischen Volksmärchen
1198:
1034:Typen türkischer Volksmärchen
870:
3899:Stories (Burton translation)
3849:The Eighth Voyage of Sindbad
2266:10.1515/fabl.2004.45.3-4.237
2174:10.1515/fabl.2004.45.3-4.311
641:According to German scholar
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214:Meeting the Persian magician
7:
3986:One Thousand and One Nights
3389:Ma'n ibn Za'ida al-Shaybani
3283:The Fisherman and the Jinni
3209:One Thousand and One Nights
2929:(Transcarpathian Ukrainian)
2578:Drower's Folk-Tales of Iraq
1223:The Thousand and One Nights
1217:The Ballet called Swan Lake
1171:In a tale collected from a
1130:The Story Of Hasan Al-Basri
1104:sourced this tale from the
801:and translated by Reverend
773:Richard McGillivray Dawkins
733:
518:
439:
10:
4052:
3167:Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index
3006:The Green Man of Knowledge
2660:The book of wonder voyages
2550:Персидские народные сказки
2357:Rüstəmzadə, İlkin (2013).
2303:, 2004. pp. 153-161.
1800:The Folklore of Fairy-tale
1468:(2011). "Hasan of Basra".
1431:The book of wonder voyages
954:
947:locates a similar tale in
938:
897:
706:
692:Edward Allworthy Armstrong
451:Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index
260:The Princess of the Djinni
208:
143:Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index
29:
3964:The Thief and the Cobbler
3912:
3891:
3810:
3779:
3769:Mârouf, savetier du Caire
3710:
3703:
3652:
3622:
3580:A Thousand and One Nights
3494:
3487:
3412:
3371:
3330:
3321:
3253:
3216:
3160:
3139:The King of Ireland's Son
3125:
3104:
3027:
2986:
2979:
2864:
2848:
2796:10.1163/24685623-12340067
2022:Enzyklopädie des Märchens
1956:Enzyklopädie des Märchens
1746:Uther, Hans-Jörg (2004).
1698:Uther, Hans-Jörg (2004).
1639:10.1515/9783112618004-004
1182:
1060:translation by professor
1027:
933:
761:
701:
493:
99:
81:
73:
65:
60:
44:
39:
2417:El-Shamy, Hasan (2004).
2234:Geldart, Edmund Martin.
2221:Hahn, Johann Georg von.
2089:Haltrich, Josef (1882).
1938:Kirby, William Forsell.
1870:Kirby, William Forsell.
1722:Thompson, Stith (1977).
1661:Thompson, Stith (1977).
1166:
1002:
855:("The Stolen Veil") and
816:
807:The Prince and the Fairy
201:, in his translation of
189:, in his translation of
30:Not to be confused with
3865:Arabian Nights and Days
3425:Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan
3151:The Tale of Tsar Saltan
1115:
1047:
1022:
289:a house befitting her.
171:translated the tale as
3744:Der Barbier von Bagdad
3227:Les mille et une nuits
2197:Modern Greek folktales
1327:Lane, Edward William.
1175:source with the title
1151:Author and folklorist
1011:collected a tale from
793:collected a tale from
402:
374:
329:
317:), the wife of caliph
223:
197:published the tale as
185:published the tale as
2528:10.1515/FABL.2009.023
2281:Sicilianische Märchen
2208:Wilson, Barbara Ker.
2167:(3–4): 324–325, 326.
2123:Portuguese folk-tales
1815:The Folk-Lore Journal
853:Der geraubte Schleier
803:Edmund Martin Geldart
791:Johann Georg von Hahn
748:The Spell-bound Giant
509:Edwin Sidney Hartland
400:
372:
345:Hassan's long journey
327:
221:
139:human and avian forms
3596:The Thief of Baghdad
3564:The Thief of Baghdad
3475:Zubaidah bint Ja'far
2748:chapter 2668118
2007:chapter 2668118
1042:Pertev Naili Boratav
904:Suzanna A. Gullakian
713:Transylvanian Saxons
498:Romanian folklorist
4011:Medieval literature
3904:Works influenced by
3719:Le calife de Bagdad
3548:The Thief of Bagdad
3516:The Thief of Bagdad
3500:The Thief of Bagdad
3430:Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf
3313:Ahmed and Paribanou
2612:Teacher Ideas Press
2278:Gonzenbach, Laura.
1891:Vol. 14 (2005): 39.
1797:Yearsley, Macleod.
1773:The Slavonic Review
1633:. pp. 37–251.
925:In a tale from the
756:O Gigante Encantado
740:Consiglieri Pedroso
711:In a tale from the
681:Southeastern Europe
605:with her two sons.
337:, then flies away.
183:Edward William Lane
3833:New Arabian Nights
3572:Baghdad Gaja Donga
3450:Ibrahim al-Mawsili
3394:Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan
3353:Old Man of the Sea
3018:Lady Featherflight
2966:(Norse and Celtic)
2610:. Portsmouth, NH:
2592:Schwartz, Howard.
2561:Marzolph, Ulrich.
1161:The Stork Princess
1124:tale collected by
1007:German ethnologue
840:and translated as
780:Barbara Ker Wilson
696:Hassan of Bassorah
568:Mazin of Khorassan
557:Sayf ben Dhi Yazan
549:Mazin of Khorassan
403:
375:
365:Arrival at Waq Waq
330:
224:
203:The Arabian Nights
128:Mazin of Khorassan
105:The Arabian Nights
18:Hassan of Bassorah
3973:
3972:
3806:
3805:
3648:
3647:
3540:La Rosa di Bagdad
3483:
3482:
3363:Sinbad the Sailor
3293:Sinbad the Sailor
3174:
3173:
3121:
3120:
2766:978-951-41-0963-8
2744:Project MUSE
2739:978-0-8143-4775-1
2681:978-0-674-05530-8
2576:Buckley, Jorunn.
2395:Гуллакян, С. А. "
2320:Kaden, Waldemar.
2210:Greek Fairy Tales
2075:Armstrong, E. A.
2039:978-3-11-015453-5
2030:10.1515/emo.9.040
2003:Project MUSE
1998:978-0-8143-4775-1
1973:978-3-11-011763-9
1964:10.1515/emo.6.113
1923:Scott, Jonathan.
1757:978-951-41-0963-8
1709:978-951-41-0963-8
1648:978-3-11-261800-4
1561:978-951-41-0963-8
1534:978-951-41-0963-8
1479:978-0-674-05530-8
1293:978-0-674-05530-8
1248:978-0-8156-5070-6
1157:Persian Kurdistan
1147:Persian Kurdistan
1017:Der Silberschmied
969:Hassan aus Bassra
857:Give Me The Veil!
827:La moglie perduta
524:Arabic literature
297:Moving to Baghdad
111:
110:
16:(Redirected from
4043:
4016:Birds in culture
3708:
3707:
3685:Thief of Baghdad
3556:Baghdad Thirudan
3492:
3491:
3460:Ja'far ibn Yahya
3455:Ishaq al-Mawsili
3328:
3327:
3303:The Three Apples
3201:
3194:
3187:
3178:
3177:
3061:(Southeast Asia)
2984:
2983:
2899:Peacock Princess
2835:
2828:
2821:
2812:
2811:
2807:
2784:Eurasian Studies
2770:
2751:
2693:
2657:Jacobs, Joseph.
2629:
2624:Anthony, Piers.
2622:
2616:
2615:
2603:
2597:
2590:
2584:
2574:
2568:
2559:
2553:
2546:
2540:
2539:
2522:(3–4): 283–292.
2511:
2505:
2496:
2490:
2481:
2475:
2468:Frobenius, Leo.
2466:
2460:
2453:Steere, Edward.
2451:
2445:
2436:
2430:
2415:
2409:
2406:
2400:
2393:
2387:
2380:
2374:
2371:
2365:
2364:
2354:
2348:
2331:
2325:
2318:
2312:
2291:
2285:
2276:
2270:
2269:
2247:
2241:
2232:
2226:
2219:
2213:
2206:
2200:
2193:
2187:
2186:
2176:
2150:
2144:
2133:
2127:
2118:
2112:
2111:
2101:
2095:
2094:
2086:
2080:
2073:
2067:
2050:
2044:
2043:
2017:
2011:
2010:
1984:
1978:
1977:
1951:
1945:
1936:
1930:
1921:
1915:
1898:
1892:
1881:
1875:
1868:
1862:
1845:
1839:
1838:
1810:
1804:
1795:
1789:
1788:
1768:
1762:
1761:
1743:
1737:
1720:
1714:
1713:
1695:
1689:
1682:
1676:
1659:
1653:
1652:
1626:
1620:
1613:
1607:
1593:
1587:
1572:
1566:
1565:
1545:
1539:
1538:
1520:
1514:
1498:
1492:
1491:
1462:
1456:
1441:
1435:
1428:Jacobs, Joseph.
1426:
1420:
1412:
1406:
1398:
1392:
1384:
1378:
1370:
1364:
1363:
1357:
1349:
1340:
1334:
1325:
1319:
1312:
1306:
1305:
1279:
1273:
1267:
1261:
1260:
1234:
1228:
1227:
1209:
1187:American author
1103:
1070:
1038:Wolfram Eberhard
987:, translated by
959:German linguist
912:
892:
851:, translated as
834:Laura Gonzenbach
789:Austrian consul
728:Die Schwanenfrau
725:
678:
670:Cristoph Schmitt
651:
538:
77:Hasan of Bassora
49:
37:
36:
21:
4051:
4050:
4046:
4045:
4044:
4042:
4041:
4040:
4021:Fictional birds
3976:
3975:
3974:
3969:
3908:
3887:
3841:Slaves of Sleep
3802:
3775:
3699:
3644:
3618:
3532:Baghdad Ka Chor
3479:
3445:Harun al-Rashid
3408:
3399:Shaddad ibn 'Ad
3367:
3317:
3288:Hassan of Basra
3278:The Ebony Horse
3249:
3212:
3205:
3175:
3170:
3156:
3117:
3100:
3065:Hassan of Basra
3023:
3020:(North America)
2975:
2866:
2860:
2844:
2839:
2778:
2776:Further reading
2773:
2767:
2740:
2682:
2638:
2633:
2632:
2623:
2619:
2604:
2600:
2591:
2587:
2575:
2571:
2560:
2556:
2547:
2543:
2512:
2508:
2497:
2493:
2482:
2478:
2467:
2463:
2452:
2448:
2437:
2433:
2416:
2412:
2407:
2403:
2394:
2390:
2381:
2377:
2372:
2368:
2355:
2351:
2332:
2328:
2319:
2315:
2296:aura Gonzenbach
2292:
2288:
2277:
2273:
2248:
2244:
2233:
2229:
2220:
2216:
2207:
2203:
2194:
2190:
2151:
2147:
2134:
2130:
2119:
2115:
2102:
2098:
2087:
2083:
2074:
2070:
2055:Fiabe siciliane
2051:
2047:
2040:
2018:
2014:
1999:
1985:
1981:
1974:
1952:
1948:
1937:
1933:
1922:
1918:
1899:
1895:
1882:
1878:
1869:
1865:
1846:
1842:
1811:
1807:
1796:
1792:
1779:(11): 321–333.
1769:
1765:
1758:
1744:
1740:
1721:
1717:
1710:
1696:
1692:
1683:
1679:
1660:
1656:
1649:
1627:
1623:
1614:
1610:
1600:Thompson, Stith
1594:
1590:
1573:
1569:
1562:
1546:
1542:
1535:
1521:
1517:
1505:Thompson, Stith
1499:
1495:
1480:
1463:
1459:
1442:
1438:
1427:
1423:
1413:
1409:
1399:
1395:
1385:
1381:
1371:
1367:
1351:
1350:
1342:
1341:
1337:
1326:
1322:
1313:
1309:
1294:
1280:
1276:
1268:
1264:
1257:j.ctt1j5d836.10
1249:
1235:
1231:
1213:Beaumont, C. W.
1210:
1206:
1201:
1185:
1173:Yemeni American
1169:
1159:with the title
1153:Howard Schwartz
1149:
1128:with the title
1118:
1097:
1095:Ulrich Marzolph
1064:
1050:
1030:
1025:
1015:with the title
1005:
977:
957:
941:
936:
923:
906:
900:
886:
884:Hənəfi Zeynallı
873:
861:Levantine Greek
819:
797:with the title
784:The Dove Maiden
764:
736:
726:with the title
719:
709:
704:
672:
645:
643:Ulrich Marzolph
639:
570:
532:
530:Ulrich Marzolph
526:
521:
513:Arabic folklore
496:
488:Hans-Jörg Uther
456:Hans-Jörg Uther
447:
442:
367:
347:
335:Wak-Wak Islands
319:Harun Al-Rashid
306:'s protection.
299:
262:
216:
211:
173:The Bird Maiden
151:
114:Hassan of Basra
69:Hassan of Basra
56:
40:Hassan of Basra
35:
28:
23:
22:
15:
12:
11:
5:
4049:
4039:
4038:
4033:
4028:
4023:
4018:
4013:
4008:
4003:
3998:
3993:
3988:
3971:
3970:
3968:
3967:
3960:
3952:
3947:
3942:
3937:
3932:
3927:
3922:
3916:
3914:
3910:
3909:
3907:
3906:
3901:
3895:
3893:
3889:
3888:
3886:
3885:
3877:
3869:
3861:
3853:
3845:
3837:
3829:
3822:
3814:
3812:
3808:
3807:
3804:
3803:
3801:
3800:
3792:
3783:
3781:
3777:
3776:
3774:
3773:
3765:
3756:
3748:
3740:
3731:
3723:
3714:
3712:
3705:
3701:
3700:
3698:
3697:
3689:
3681:
3677:Arabian Nights
3673:
3665:
3656:
3654:
3650:
3649:
3646:
3645:
3643:
3642:
3637:
3632:
3626:
3624:
3620:
3619:
3617:
3616:
3612:Arabian Nights
3608:
3600:
3592:
3588:Arabian Nights
3584:
3576:
3568:
3560:
3552:
3544:
3536:
3528:
3524:Arabian Nights
3520:
3512:
3504:
3495:
3489:
3485:
3484:
3481:
3480:
3478:
3477:
3472:
3467:
3462:
3457:
3452:
3447:
3442:
3437:
3432:
3427:
3422:
3416:
3414:
3410:
3409:
3407:
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3401:
3396:
3391:
3386:
3381:
3375:
3373:
3369:
3368:
3366:
3365:
3360:
3355:
3350:
3345:
3340:
3334:
3332:
3325:
3319:
3318:
3316:
3315:
3310:
3305:
3300:
3295:
3290:
3285:
3280:
3275:
3270:
3265:
3259:
3257:
3251:
3250:
3248:
3247:
3239:
3231:
3222:
3220:
3214:
3213:
3204:
3203:
3196:
3189:
3181:
3172:
3171:
3161:
3158:
3157:
3155:
3154:
3148:
3142:
3136:
3129:
3127:
3123:
3122:
3119:
3118:
3116:
3115:
3108:
3106:
3102:
3101:
3099:
3098:
3092:
3086:
3080:
3074:
3071:The Swan Queen
3068:
3062:
3056:
3050:
3044:
3038:
3031:
3029:
3025:
3024:
3022:
3021:
3015:
3009:
3003:
2997:
2990:
2988:
2981:
2977:
2976:
2974:
2973:
2970:The Goose Wife
2967:
2961:
2960:
2959:
2954:
2949:
2936:
2930:
2924:
2923:(South Slavic)
2918:
2912:
2906:
2896:
2893:The Crane Wife
2890:
2884:
2883:
2882:
2870:
2868:
2862:
2861:
2859:
2858:
2852:
2850:
2846:
2845:
2838:
2837:
2830:
2823:
2815:
2809:
2808:
2790:(1): 123–157.
2777:
2774:
2772:
2771:
2765:
2752:
2738:
2725:
2710:
2702:
2701:
2699:
2695:
2694:
2690:j.ctt2jbtr6.15
2680:
2672:Stranger Magic
2668:Warner, Marina
2664:
2655:
2646:
2645:
2643:
2639:
2637:
2634:
2631:
2630:
2617:
2598:
2585:
2569:
2554:
2541:
2506:
2491:
2476:
2461:
2446:
2438:Stumme, Hans.
2431:
2410:
2401:
2388:
2375:
2366:
2349:
2326:
2313:
2286:
2271:
2242:
2227:
2214:
2201:
2188:
2145:
2128:
2113:
2096:
2081:
2068:
2045:
2038:
2012:
1997:
1979:
1972:
1946:
1931:
1916:
1893:
1876:
1863:
1840:
1821:(1): 193–242.
1805:
1790:
1763:
1756:
1738:
1715:
1708:
1690:
1677:
1654:
1647:
1621:
1608:
1588:
1567:
1560:
1540:
1533:
1515:
1493:
1488:j.ctt2jbtr6.15
1478:
1470:Stranger Magic
1466:Warner, Marina
1457:
1436:
1421:
1407:
1393:
1379:
1365:
1335:
1320:
1314:Shah, Idries.
1307:
1302:j.ctt2jbtr6.46
1292:
1284:Stranger Magic
1274:
1262:
1247:
1229:
1203:
1202:
1200:
1197:
1184:
1181:
1168:
1165:
1148:
1145:
1117:
1114:
1049:
1046:
1029:
1026:
1024:
1021:
1004:
1001:
976:
973:
956:
953:
945:Hasan El-Shamy
940:
937:
935:
932:
922:
921:Mordvin people
919:
899:
896:
872:
869:
849:Dammi lu velu!
818:
815:
769:Το Χρυσό βουνό
763:
760:
735:
732:
717:Josef Haltrich
708:
705:
703:
700:
638:
635:
569:
566:
560:; the titular
541:Arabian Nights
525:
522:
520:
517:
495:
492:
484:Stith Thompson
446:
443:
441:
438:
366:
363:
346:
343:
298:
295:
261:
258:
215:
212:
210:
207:
181:. Orientalist
150:
147:
119:Arabian Nights
109:
108:
101:
97:
96:
95:
94:
91:
86:
83:Aarne–Thompson
79:
78:
75:
71:
70:
67:
63:
62:
58:
57:
50:
42:
41:
32:Hasan al-Basri
26:
9:
6:
4:
3:
2:
4048:
4037:
4034:
4032:
4029:
4027:
4024:
4022:
4019:
4017:
4014:
4012:
4009:
4007:
4004:
4002:
3999:
3997:
3994:
3992:
3989:
3987:
3984:
3983:
3981:
3966:
3965:
3961:
3959:
3957:
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3928:
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3911:
3905:
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3900:
3897:
3896:
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3874:
3870:
3867:
3866:
3862:
3859:
3858:
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2865:Supernatural
2849:Main article
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100:Published in
4036:ATU 400-459
4031:ATU 850-999
3958:(franchise)
3940:Open sesame
3857:Dunyazadiad
3799:(1918–1919)
3737:(Cherubini)
3693:1001 Nights
3688:(2000–2001)
3664:(1993–1997)
3308:Abou Hassan
3246:(1926–1932)
3238:(1885–1888)
3230:(1704–1717)
3126:Adaptations
3073:(Lithuania)
3000:King Kojata
2941:(Germanic)
2856:Swan maiden
2842:Swan maiden
1316:World Tales
1108:region, in
1098: [
1065: [
993:frame story
975:East Africa
961:Hans Stumme
907: [
887: [
876:Azerbaijani
738:Folklorist
720: [
673: [
646: [
533: [
464:swan maiden
178:World Tales
169:Idries Shah
135:swan maiden
53:John Batten
3980:Categories
3945:Roc (rukh)
3811:Literature
3727:Abu Hassan
3661:Alif Laila
3653:Television
3465:Khosrow II
3413:Historical
3323:Characters
3135:(Noh play)
3014:(Portugal)
3008:(Scotland)
2980:Tale types
2927:Povitrulya
2903:Dai people
1199:References
1106:Azerbaijan
871:Azerbaijan
865:Jack Zipes
752:Portuguese
744:Portuguese
500:Marcu Beza
195:John Payne
162:Hassan of
3752:La statue
3623:Templates
3435:Al-Ma'mun
3420:Abu Nuwas
3372:Legendary
3331:Fictional
3145:Swan Lake
3141:(fantasy)
3091:(Denmark)
3089:Maid Lena
2804:214019215
2724:(e-book).
2536:162077992
2301:Routledge
2183:161609991
1914:(e-book).
1861:(e-book).
1586:(e-book).
1455:(e-book).
1354:cite book
1086:Mount Qaf
811:dervishes
685:West Asia
445:Tale type
167:. Author
155:Hasan of
61:Folk tale
3950:Shahrokh
3828:" (1845)
3821:" (1830)
3762:(Lecocq)
3760:Ali-Baba
3735:Ali Baba
3640:Ali Baba
3343:Ali Baba
3147:(ballet)
3133:Hagoromo
3114:(Russia)
3085:(Sweden)
3079:(Serbia)
3067:(Arabic)
3059:Manohara
3053:Chilseok
3047:Tanabata
3002:(Slavic)
2996:(Russia)
2952:Brunhild
2939:Valkyrie
2935:(Greece)
2921:Samodiva
2911:(Persia)
2876:(India)
2698:Analysis
1215:(1952).
1013:Kordofan
965:Tunisian
943:Scholar
927:Mordvins
734:Portugal
519:Variants
440:Analysis
409:seraglio
315:Zubaydah
232:dinner.
85:grouping
3956:Aladdin
3913:Related
3796:Aladdin
3630:Aladdin
3440:Baibars
3404:Solomon
3338:Aladdin
3268:Aladdin
3255:Stories
3105:ATU 465
3097:(Korea)
3055:(Korea)
3049:(Japan)
3043:(China)
3037:(China)
3028:ATU 400
2987:ATU 313
2972:(Inuit)
2933:Neraida
2895:(Japan)
2889:(Japan)
2880:Urvashi
2642:Sources
1887:". In:
1835:1252693
1785:4201965
1075:of the
1058:Russian
1056:or its
1032:In the
981:Swahili
955:Tunisia
949:Algeria
939:Algeria
915:Armenia
898:Armenia
832:Author
778:Author
707:Romania
683:and in
658:Turkmen
656:(among
545:Janshah
507:works.
355:Amazons
287:Baghdad
241:henbane
229:Persian
209:Summary
193:. Poet
164:Bassora
124:Janshah
3884:(2015)
3876:(1991)
3868:(1979)
3860:(1972)
3852:(1964)
3844:(1939)
3836:(1882)
3772:(1914)
3764:(1887)
3755:(1861)
3747:(1858)
3739:(1833)
3730:(1811)
3722:(1800)
3711:Operas
3696:(2011)
3680:(2000)
3672:(1994)
3635:Sinbad
3615:(2015)
3607:(1991)
3604:Ajooba
3599:(1978)
3591:(1974)
3583:(1969)
3575:(1968)
3567:(1961)
3559:(1960)
3551:(1952)
3543:(1949)
3535:(1946)
3527:(1942)
3519:(1940)
3511:(1926)
3503:(1924)
3470:Shirin
3163:Notes:
3153:(poem)
2964:Selkie
2887:Tennin
2874:Apsara
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