Thursday, August 18, 2011

Arabian Nights Summary

The king is killing all his wives so this new wife tells a story to stay alive.

First story - Merchant accidentally kills a genie's son with the pits of the dates he ate.  The genie grants him a year to settle his affairs, and he returns to be killed.   While he is waiting 3 merchants come.  They ask the genie to take off 1/3 of the man's punishment if he likes their story.

2nd story - 1st merchant's story to genie- Deer is is wife
3rd story - 2nd merchant's story to genie - 2 dogs are his brothers
4th story - 3rd merchant's story to genie- fishermen and a genie that wants to kill him for freeing him
5th story - fishermen's story to genie from 4th story- a king and a physician, grand vizir gets jealous
6th story - king's story to the grand vizir  - prince who got lost hunting
return to 5th story - king kills the physician and dies himself
return to 4th story - genie tells the fisherman how to get 4 kinds of fish, show to king, ghosts come out of walls, king goes to the lake to solve mystery, finds palace of black marble with a man that is half marble.
7th story - half marble man's story to the king - wife stopped loving him, he wounded a slave she loved, she turned his kingdom to a lake and the people to 4 kinds of fish,

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