Aladdin

Be whisked away on a magic carpet ride filled with enchantment, adventure, and triumph. This episode is your ticket to a world of wonder as we unravel the captivating tale of Aladdin, his magical escapades, and the trials he endures. Aladdin, armed with a determination that knows no bounds, sets out on his quest to win the heart of the princess. With a genie at his command, our hero presents the Sultan with an astonishing display of wealth and builds a marvel of a palace that leaves the Sultan amazed. It's a story for the ages, so snuggle up and have sweet dreams. 

The music in this episode is Bhimpalasi by Pawan Krishna. 

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dreamfall. I put up a listener poll on my Instagram account asking you what story I should do, and the winner was Aladdin. And it's about time, because I've been dying to read this story. It's a little different from the Disney movies we're used to, but I think you'll love the original version of the story just as much. So snuggle up in your blankets and have sweet

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dreams. There once lived a poor tailor who had a son called Aladdin, a careless, idle boy who would do nothing but play all day long in the streets with little idle boys like himself. This so grieved the father that he died. Yet in spite of his mother's tears and prayers, aladdin did not mend his ways. One day, when he was playing in the streets as usual, a stranger asked him his age and if he was not the son of Mustafa the tailor. I am, sir, replied Aladdin, but he died a long while ago. On this, the stranger, who was a famous African magician, fell on his neck and kissed him, saying I am your uncle and I knew you from your likeness to my brother. Go tell your mother I am coming. Aladdin ran home and told his mother of his newly found uncle In deep child. She said your father had a brother, but I always thought he was dead. However, she prepared supper and bade Aladdin seek his uncle, who came laden with wine and fruit. He fell down and kissed the place where Mustafa used to sit, bidding Aladdin's mother not to be surprised at not having seen him before, as he had been forty years out of the country. He then turned to Aladdin and asked him his trade, at which the boy hung his head while his mother burst into tears. Upon learning that Aladdin was idle and would learn no trade, he offered to take a shot for him and stock it with merchandise. Next day he bought Aladdin a fine suit of clothes and took him all over the city showing him the sights, and brought him home at nightfall to his mother, who was overjoyed to see her son so

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fine. The next day, the magician led Aladdin into some beautiful gardens a long way outside the city gates. They sat down by a fountain and the magician pulled a cake from his girdle, which he divided between them. Then they journeyed onwards till they almost reached the mountains. Aladdin was so tired that he begged to go back, but the magician beguiled him with pleasant stories and led him on, in spite of himself. At last they came to two mountains divided by a narrow

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valley. We will go no farther, said his uncle. I will show you something wonderful. Only do you gather up sticks while I kindle a fire. When it was lit, the magician threw on it a powder he had about him, at the same time saying some magical words. The earth trembled a little in front of them, disclosing a square, flat stone with a brass ring in the middle to raise it by. Aladdin tried to run away, but the magician caught him and gave him a blow that knocked him down. What have I done, uncle, he said piteously. We were upon. The magician said more kindly, fear nothing, but obey me. Only this stone lies a treasure which is to be yours and no one else may touch it. So you must do exactly as I tell you At the word

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treasure. Aladdin forgot his fears and grasped the ring, as he was told, saying the names of his father and grandfather. The stone came up quite easily and some steps appeared. Go down, said the magician. At the foot of those steps you will find an open door leading into three large halls. Look up your gown and go through them without touching anything or you will die instantly. These halls lead into a garden of fine fruit trees. Walk on till you come to a niche in a terrace where stands a lighted lamp. Pour out the oil it contains and bring it to me. He drew a ring from his finger and gave it to Aladdin, bidding him

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prosper. Aladdin found everything, as the magician had said, gathered some fruit off the trees and, having got the lamp, arrived at the mouth of the cave, the magician cried out in a great hurry make haste and give me the lamp. This Aladdin refused to do. Until he was out of the cave, the magician flew into a terrible passion and, throwing some more powder on the fire, he said something and the stone rolled back into its place. The man left the country, which plainly showed that he was no uncle of Aladdin's but a cunning magician who had read in his magic books of a wonderful lamp which would make him the most powerful man in the world. Though he alone knew where to find it, he could only receive it from the hand of another. He had picked out the foolish Aladdin for this purpose, intending to get the lamp and kill him

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afterwards. For two days Aladdin remained in the dark, crying and lamenting. At last, he clasped his hands in prayer and in doing so rubbed the ring which the magician had forgotten to take from him. Immediately, an enormous and frightful genie rose out of the earth, saying what was thou with me? I am the slave of the ring and will obey thee in all things. Aladdin fearlessly replied Deliver me from this place. Whereupon the earth opened and he found himself outside as soon as his eyes could bear the

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light. He went home, but fainted on the threshold. When he came to himself, he told his mother what had passed and showed her the lamp and the fruits he had gathered in the garden, which were in reality precious stones. He then asked for some food, a last child. She said I have nothing in the house, but I have spun a little cotton and will go sell it. Aladdin bade her keeper cotton, for he would sell the lamp. Instead, as it was very dirty, she began to rub it that it might fetch a higher price. Instantly, a hideous genie appeared and asked what she would have. She fainted away, but Aladdin, snatching the lamp, said boldly fetch me something to eat. The genie returned with a silver bowl, twelve silver plates containing rich meats, two silver cups and two bottles of wine. Aladdin's mother, when she came to herself, said Whence comes this splendid feast? Ask not, but eat, replied Aladdin. So they sat at breakfast till it was dinner time and Aladdin told his mother about the lamp. She begged him to sell it and have nothing to do with the devils. No, said Aladdin. Since chance has made us aware of its virtues, we will use it in the ring likewise, which I shall always wear on my finger. When they had eaten all the genie had brought, aladdin sold one of the silver plates, and so on, till none were left. He then had recourse to the genie, who gave him another set of plates, and thus they lived many

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years. One day Aladdin heard an order from the Sultan proclaiming that everyone was to stay at home and close his shutters while the princess, his daughter, went to and from the bath. Aladdin was seized by a desire to see her face, which was very difficult, but she was always veiled. He hid himself behind the door of the bath and peeped through a crack. The princess lived at her veil as she went in and looked so beautiful that Aladdin fell in love with her at first sight. He went home so changed that his mother was frightened. He told her he loved the princess so deeply, he could not live without her and meant to ask her in marriage of her father. His mother, on hearing this, burst out laughing. But Aladdin, at last, prevailed upon her to go before the Sultan and carry his request. She fetched a napkin and laid it in the magic fruits from the enchanted garden which sparkled and shone like the most beautiful jewels. She took these with her to please the Sultan and set out trusting in the

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lamp. The Grand Vizier and the Lords of the Council had just gone in as she entered the hall and placed herself in front of the Sultan. He, however, took no notice of her. She went every day for a week and stood in the same place. When the Council broke up on the sixth day, the Sultan sent to his Vizier I see a certain woman in the audience chamber every day carrying something in a napkin Call her next time that I may find out what she wants Next day. At a sign for the Vizier, she went up to the foot of the throne and remained kneeling until the Sultan said to her Rise, good woman, and tell me what you want. She hesitated, so the Sultan sent way all but the Vizier and bade her speak freely, promising to forgive her beforehand for anything she might say. She then told him of her son's violent love for the Princess. I prayed him to forget her, she said, but in vain. He threatened to do some desperate deed if I refused to go and ask her majesty, for the hand of the princess. Now I pray you to forgive not me alone, but also my son

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Aladdin. The sultan asked her kindly what she had in the napkin, whereupon she unfolded the jewels and presented them. He was thunderstruck and, turning to the vizier, said what sayest thou? Ought I not to bestow the princess on one who values her at such a price? The vizier, who wanted her for his own son, begged the sultan to withhold her for three months, in the course of which he hoped his son could contrive to make him a richer present. The sultan granted this and told Aladdin's mother that, though he consented to the marriage, she must not appear before him again for three

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months. Aladdin waited patiently for nearly three months, but after two had elapsed, his mother, going into the city to buy oil, found everyone rejoicing and asked what was going on? Do you not know? Was the answer that the son of the grand vizier is to marry the sultan's daughter tonight. Breathless, she ran and told Aladdin, who was overwhelmed at first but presently bethought him of the lamp. He rubbed it and the genie appeared saying what is thy will? Aladdin replied the sultan, as thou knowest, has broken his promise to me, and the vizier's son is to have the princess. My command is that tonight you bring hither the bride and bridegroom, master, I obey, said the genie. Aladdin then went to his chamber where, sure enough, at midnight, the genie transported the bed containing the vizier's son and the princess. Take this new married man, he said, and put him outside in the cold and return at daybreak. Whereupon the genie took the vizier's son out of the bed, leaving Aladdin with the princess. Fear nothing, aladdin said to her. You are my wife, promised to me by your unjust father, and no harm will come to

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you. The princess was too frightened to speak and passed the most miserable night of her life, while Aladdin lay down beside her and slept soundly. At the appointed hour, the genie fetched in the shivering bridegroom, laid him in his place and transported the bed back to the palace. Presently, the sultan came to wish his daughter good morning. The unhappy vizier's son jumped up and hid himself. While the princess would not say a word and was very sorrowful. The sultan sent her mother to her who said how comes it, child, that he will not speak to your father? What has happened? The princess sighed deeply and at last told her mother how, during the night, the bed had been carried into some strange house and what had passed there. Her mother did not believe her in the least, but bade her rise and consider it an idle

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dream. The following night, exactly the same thing happened the next morning. While the princesses were refusing to speak, the sultan threatened to cut off her head. She then confessed, all bidding him. Ask the vizier's son. If it were not so, the sultan told the vizier to ask his son, who owned the truth, adding that, dearly as he loved the princess, he had rather die than go through another such fearful night and wished to be separated from her. His wish was granted and there was an end of feasting and

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rejoicing. When the three months were over, aladdin sent his mother to remind the sultan of his promise. She stood in the same place as before and the sultan, who had forgotten Aladdin, at once remembered him and sent for her. On seeing her poverty, the sultan felt less inclined than ever to keep his word and asked his vizier's advice, who counseled him to set so high a value on the princess that no man living could come up to it. The sultan then turned to Aladdin's mother, saying Good woman, a sultan must remember his promises, and I will remember mine, but your son must first send me forty basins of gold brimful of jewels, carried by forty servants and led by forty lords splendidly dressed. Tell him that I await his

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answer. The mother of Aladdin bowed low and went home, thinking all was lost. She gave Aladdin the message, adding he may wait long enough for your answer. Not so long, mother, as you think. Her son replied I would do a great deal more than that for the princess. He summoned the genie and in a few moments eighty people arrived and filled up the small house and garden. Aladdin made them to set out to the palace two by two, followed by his mother. They were so richly dressed, with such splendid jewels that everyone crowded to see them and the basins of gold they carried on their heads. They entered the palace and, after kneeling before the sultan, stood in a half circle around the throne with arms crossed. While Aladdin's mother presented them to the sultan. He hesitated no longer but said Good woman, return and tell your son that I wait for him with open

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arms. She lost no time in telling Aladdin, bidding him make haste. But Aladdin first called the genie. I want a scented bath, he said, a richly embroidered habit, a horse surpassing the sultans and twenty servants to attend me. Besides this, six servants beautifully dressed to wait on my mother and lastly, ten thousand pieces of gold in ten purses. No sooner said than done, aladdin mounted his horse and passed through the streets. The servants drank gold as they

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went. Those who had played with him in his childhood knew him not. He had grown so handsome. When the sultan saw him, he came down from his throne, embraced him and led him into a hall where a feast was spread, intending to marry him to the princess that very day. But Aladdin refused, saying I must build a palace fit for her, and took his leave. Once home he said to the genie Build me a palace of the finest marble, set with jasper agate and other precious stones. In the middle you shall build me a large hall with a dome with four walls of massy, gold and silver, each side having six windows whose lattices all except one which is to be left unfinished must be set with diamonds and rubies. There must be stables and horses and grooms and servants. Go and see about

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it. The palace was finished the next day and the genie carried him there and showed him all his orders, faithfully carried out, even to the laying of a velvet carpet from Aladdin's palace to the sultan's. Aladdin's mother then dressed herself carefully and walked to the palace with her servants. While he followed her on horseback, the sultan sent musicians with trumpets and symbols to meet them, so that the air resounded with music and cheers. She was taken to the princess, who saluted her and treated her with great honor. At night, the princess said goodbye to her father and set out on the carpet for Aladdin's palace, with his mother at her side and followed by the hundred servants. She was charmed at the sight of Aladdin, who ran to receive her Princess. He said blame your beauty for my boldness if I have displeased you. She told him that, having seen him, she willingly obeyed her father in this matter. After the wedding had taken place, aladdin led her into the hall where a feast was spread and she slept with him, after which they danced till

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midnight. Next day, aladdin invited the Sultan to see the palace. On entering the hall with the four and twenty windows, with their rubies, diamonds and emeralds, he cried it is a world's wonder. There is only one thing that surprises me. Was it by accident that one window was left unfinished? No, sir, by design, returned Aladdin. I wished your majesty to have the glory of finishing this palace. The Sultan was pleased and sent for the best jewelers in the city. He showed them the unfinished window and bade them fitted up like the others. Sir, replied the spokesman. We cannot find jewels enough. The Sultan had his own fetched, which they soon used, but no purpose, for in a month's time the work was not have done. Aladdin, knowing that their task was in vain, bade them undo their work and carry the jewels back, and the genie finished the window at his command. The Sultan was surprised to receive his jewels again and visited Aladdin, who showed him the window finished. The Sultan embraced him, the envious vizier meanwhile hinting that it was the work of

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enchantment. Aladdin had won the hearts of the people by his gentle bearing. He was made captain of the Sultan's armies and won several battles for him, but remained as courteous as before and lived thus in peace and content for several years. But far away in Africa, the magician remembered Aladdin and, by his magic arts, discovered that Aladdin, instead of perishing miserably in the cave, had escaped and had married a princess with whom he was living in great honor and wealth. He knew that the poor Taylor's son could only have accomplished this by means of the lamp and traveled night and day till he reached the capital of Trinna, bent on Aladdin's ruin. As he passed through the town, he heard people talking everywhere about a marvelous palace. Forgive my ignorance. He asked what is the place you speak of? Have you not heard of Prince Aladdin's palace? Was the reply the greatest wonder in the world. I will direct you if you have a mind to see it. The magician thanked him who spoke and, having seen the palace, knew that it had been raised by the genie of the lamp and became half mad. With rage, he determined to get hold of the lamp and again plunge Aladdin into the deepest

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poverty. Unluckily, aladdin had gone hunting for eight days, which gave the magician plenty of time. He bought a dozen lamps, put them into a basket and went to the palace crying New lamps for old. Followed by a jeering crowd, the princess, sitting in the hall of four and twenty windows, sent a servant to find out what the noise was about. Who came back laughing so that the princess scolded her. Madam, replied the servant, who can help laughing to see an old fool offering to exchange fine new lamps for old ones? Another servant, hearing this, said there's an old one on the corner there which he can have Now. This was the magic lamp which Aladdin had left there as it could not take it out hunting with him. The princess, not knowing its value, laughingly bade the servant take it and make the exchange. She went and said to the magician give me a new lamp for this. He snatched it and bade the servant take her choice. Amid the jeers, the crowd. Little he cared but laughed off carrying his lamps and went out of the city gates to a lonely place where he remained till nightfall. When he pulled out the lamp and rubbed it, the genie appeared and, at the magician's command, carried him together with the palace and the princess in it, to a lonely place in

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Africa. Next morning the sultan looked out of the window towards Aladdin's palace and rubbed his eyes for it was gone. He sent for the vizier and asked what had become of the palace. The vizier looked out too and was lost in astonishment. He again put it down to enchantment and this time the sultan believed him and sent thirty men on horseback to fetch Aladdin back in chains. They met him riding home, bound him and forced him to go with them on foot. The people, however, who loved him, followed arm to sea that he came to no harm. He was carried before the sultan, who ordered the executioner to cut off his head. The executioner made Aladdin kneel down, bandage his eyes and raised his scimitar to strike. At that instant the vizier, who saw that the crowd had forced their way into the courtyard and were scaling the walls to rescue Aladdin, called to the executioner to stay his hand. The people indeed looked so threatening that the sultan gave way and ordered Aladdin to be unbound and pardoned him in the sight of the

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crowd. Aladdin now begged to know what he had done. False wretch, said the sultan, come hither and showed him from the window the place where his palace had stood. Aladdin was so amazed he could not say a word. Where is your palace? And my daughter, demanded the Sultan For the first. I am not so deeply concerned, but my daughter I must have and you must find her or lose your head. Aladdin begged for 40 days in which to find her, promising, if he failed to return, to suffer death of the Sultan's pleasure. His prayer was granted and he went forth, sadly, from the Sultan's presence. For three days he wandered about like a madman, asking everyone what had become of his palace, but they only laughed and pitied him. He came to the banks of a river and knelt down to say his prayers before throwing himself in. In doing so he robbed the ring he still wore. The genie he had seen in the cave appeared and asked his will, save my life. Genie, said Aladdin, and bring my palace back. That is not my power, said the genie. I am only the slave of the ring. You must ask him of the lamp Even so, said Aladdin, but you can take me to the palace and set me down under my dear wife's

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window. He had once found himself in Africa under the window of the princess and fell asleep out of sheer weariness. He was awakened by the singing of birds and his heart was lighter. He saw plainly that all his misfortunes were owing to the loss of the lamp and vainly wondered who had robbed him of it. That morning the princess rose earlier than she had done, since she had been carried into Africa by the magician whose company she was forced to endure once a day. She, however, treated him so harshly that he dared not live there altogether. As she was dressing, one of her women looked out and saw Aladdin. The princess ran and opened the window, and at the noise she made, aladdin looked up. She called him to come to her, and great was the joy of these lovers seeing each other

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again. After he had kissed her, aladdin said I beg of you, princess, in God's name, before we speak of anything else, for your own sake and mine, tell me what has become of an old lamp I left on the cornice in the hall of forty and twenty windows when I went hunting Alas. She said I am the innocent cause of our sorrows and told him of the exchange of the lamp. Now I know, cried Aladdin, that we have to thank the African magician for this. Where is the lamp? He carries it about with him, said the princess. I know, for he pulled it out to show me. He wishes me to break my faith with you and marry him, saying that you will be headed by my father's command. He is forever speaking ill of you, but I only reply by my tears If I persist. I doubt not, but he will use

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violence. Aladdin comforted her and left her for a while. He changed clothes with the first person he met in the town and, having bought a certain powder, returned to the princess, who let him in by a little side door. Put on your most beautiful dress, he said to her, and received the magician with smiles, leading him to believe that you have forgotten me. Invite him to sup with you and say you wish to taste the wine of his country. He will go for some and while he is gone I will tell you what to

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do. She listened carefully to Aladdin and when he left her, arrayed herself gaily. For the first time since she left China. She put on a girdle and a headdress of diamonds and, seeing in a glass that she was more beautiful than ever, received the magician saying to his great amazement I have made up my mind that Aladdin is dead and that all my tears will not bring him back to me. So I resolved him or no more and have therefore invited you to sup with me, but I am tired of the wines of China and would feign tasos of Africa. The magician flew to a cellar and the princess put the powder Aladdin had given her in her cup. When he returned, she asked him to drink her health in the wine of Africa, handing him her cup in exchange for his as a sign she was reconciled to him. Before drinking, the magician made her speech in praise of her beauty, but the princess cut him short, saying Let us drink first and you shall say what you will afterwards. She set her cup to her lips and kept it there while the magician drained his to the dregs and fell back lifeless. The princess then opened the door to Aladdin and flung her arms around his neck, but Aladdin went to the dead magician, took the lamp out of his vest and bathed the genie, carried the palace and all in it back to China. This was done and the princess, in her chamber, felt only two little shocks and little thought. She was home

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again. The sultan, who was sitting in his closet mourning for his lost daughter, happened to look up and rubbed his eyes, for there stood the palace as before. He hastened there and Aladdin received him in the hall of the four and twenty windows, with the princess at his side. Aladdin told him what had happened and showed him the dead body of the magician that he might believe. A ten days feast was proclaimed and it seemed as if Aladdin might now live the rest of his life in peace. But it was not meant to

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be. The African magician had a younger brother who was, if possible, more wicked and more cunning than himself. He travelled to China to avenge his brother's death and went to visit a pious woman called Fatima. Thinking she might be of use to him, he entered her cell and clapped a dagger to her breast, telling her to rise and do his bidding on pain of death. He changed clothes with her, coloured his face like hers and put on her veil. Then he went towards the palace of Aladdin and all the people thinking he was the holy woman gathered round him, kissing his hands and begging his blessing. When he got to the palace, there was such a noise going on around him that the princess bade her servant look out the window and ask what was the matter. The servant said it was the holy woman curing people by her touch of their ailments, whereupon the princess, who had long desired to see Fatima, sent for

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her. On coming to the princess, the magician offered up a prayer for her health and prosperity. When he was done, the princess made him sit by her and begged him to stay with her always. The false Fatima, who wished for nothing better, consented but kept his veil down for fear of discovery. The princess showed him the hall and asked him what he thought of it. It is truly beautiful, said the false Fatima. In my mind, it wants but one thing. And what is that, said the princess. If only a rock's egg, replied he, were hung up from the middle of the stone, it would be the wonder of the world. After this, the princess could think of nothing but the rock's

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egg. And when Aladdin returned from hunting he found her in very ill humor. He begged to know it was a miss, and she told him that all her pleasure in the hall was spoiled for a want of a rock's egg hanging from the dome. If that is all, replied Aladdin, you shall soon be happy. He left her and rubbed the lamp and when the genie appeared, commanded him to bring a rock's egg. The genie gave such a loud and terrible shriek that the hall shook. Wretch, he cried it is not enough that I have done everything for you, but you must command me to bring my master and hang him up in the midst of this

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dome. You and your wife and your palace deserve to be burnt ashes, but that this request does not come from you, but from the brother of the African magician whom you destroyed. He is now in your palace disguised as this holy woman. It was he who put that wish into your wife's head. Take care of yourself, for he means to kill you. So saying, the genie disappeared. Aladdin went back to the princess, saying his head ached and requesting that the holy Fatima should be fetched to lay her hands on it. But when the magician came near Aladdin, seizing his dagger, pierced him to the heart. What have you done, cried the princess. You have killed the holy woman. Not, so replied Aladdin, but a wicked magician, and told her of how she had been deceived. After this, aladdin and his wife lived in peace. He succeeded the Sultan when he died and reigned for many years, leaving behind him A long line of kings.

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